Church Saint Ercolano

This church was built at the behest of the Consuls Brescia in honor of the Holy Bishop and Patron Herculaneum after the peace concluded with the Municipality of Trent.

Church Saint Ercolano: before 1928 Campione was divided between the territory of Tremosine and that of Tignale; Campione lower was in the parish of Tignale (Diocese of Trento) and Campione upper was in the Parish of Pieve of tremosine (Diocese of Brescia).
In Campione upper there was a church dedicated to the great hermit St. Jerome, existed until the flood of 1870.
In Campione lower there was the small and rustic church dedicated to St. Ercolano, located between the poor houses behind the palace of the Counts Archetti. G.P. Brogiolo writes in his “The medieval churches of Lake Garda”: “…, in Roman times there was a settlement of a certain consistency as suggested by the discovery of about thirty tombs at the end of the republic and it is possible that a first place it was built in late Antiquity. In 958 it was owned by the monastery of Leno, founded in 758 by Desiderio, the last Lombard king, and it is probable that the pertinent goods came from a donation by the founder. The monastery always claimed, until the suppression occurred in 1783, the jurisdiction over the church of Sant’Ercolano against the claims of Tignale. In a privilege of 1185, Pope Urban III confirms to the monastery of Leno, among the assets of Campione, a church dedicated to San Lorenzo, while, as we have seen, two years later, the oratory of Sant’Ercolano is mentioned in the bull for the parish church of Tignale, more than two churches (there is no trace of San Lorenzo in posterity documentation hours) we could think of a double title: the one in San Lorenzo could be original (V-first half of the VI century), to which is added the dedication to San Ercolano, after the bishop of Brescia was buried there.

Already in 1537 it was mentioned in a written report about the pastoral visit of Trento bishops, then was rebuilt and although no particular historic and artistic importance, it is interesting to note its position in line with the orientation of the two medieval churches of S. Michele in valley and S.Pietro in Limone. Along with a number of Trento churches (including the medieval parish church of S. Giovanni Battista and S. Lorenzo in Voltino) presents the altar facing east-south-east, the point on the horizon where the sun rises to the solstice winter, a period in which the day of the birth of the Lord.