Pieve Santa Maria Immacolata

The ancient pieve of Avio, dedicated to St. Mary Immaculate, is an old building, it is assumed between the eighth and tenth centuries, and had a vast area that was the diocese of Verona. The church has a bell tower in white stone and a plan with three naves, inside there are frescoes by Veronese anonymous dating back to the twelfth century, other frescoes are the work of Gian Maria Falconetto in ‘4 five medallions of time and Paul Farinati four sibyls always on time; 152 is the marble bas-relief painting of Christ by William Emanuelli of the ‘5 and always a valuable statue of Mary Immaculate. Its importance was less with the subsequent construction of other churches and castle, the plague broke out in 1575 and fell into disuse for some time, was then replaced by the new parish church of the seventeenth century