Church of Santa Maria
The Church of Santa Maria in Cisano, Diocese of Verona, was part of the scope of the pieve of Santa Maria in Garda, but already in 1145 Pope Lucius II he recognized a certain territoriality.
Church of Santa Maria: the present Romanesque building dates back to 1120-1130, rebuilt after the 1117 earthquake, probably the remains of a previous dedicated to San Giuliano existing in the X-XI century, with large assumptions, had replaced an original pagan building already used as crypt from 380 AD. A witness to the reconstruction of 1120-1130 there is an inscription on the side of the window right of the facade showing Petrus – BERARDUS – BERNARDUS that Vedovelli indicates as the patrons of the work: the papacy, bishop, presbytery. The Romanesque church remains the facade, the apse and the bell tower because, during the renovations in 1838, were raised the apses and the facade, this ends with a frame arches in tufa enriched by elements of white stone and with three openings, a central mullioned window and two single side; above the entrance to a shrine with an arch supported by two columns that show a female figure on the capitals of two lions and a Madonna with Child in the center probably of the sixteenth century. On the sides of the aedicule are figures carved in tuff left a knight, right an eagle, a fish (it is thought a trout) and a horse that seems to bring a basket for the harvest of grapes. Vedovelli think that the rider is requesting protection from the community; fish and horse represent the people of Cisano, composed of fishermen and farmers. It is believed that the figures are dated to the eleventh century, but the Eagles easily predate. The apse has large pebbles at the bottom and is punctuated by pilasters with four arches each; the pilaster on the left there are two human busts of man and woman who is supposed to be among the lenders of the church, in the second there is carved a swastika likely signature of the sculptor who created the various figures present. Inside, in the sacristy, it is painted an inscription of the tenth century that recalls both the foundation of the crypt , the donation of the relics of the apostle Peter and the restoration of the building sponsored by the priest Teupo.
The massive bell tower of the same period of the church, with square base, is made on the underside of tufa and of limestone alternating brick in the higher part; The belfry has a lancet window to side.