Church S.Lorenzo Martire

Church S.Lorenzo Martire

In Pescantina between Verona and Lake Garda

Church S.Lorenzo Martire was begun in the middle of the eighteenth century, thought to be by Alessandro Pompei, is a large building with a eighty-meter bell tower built on the west side in the early nineteenth century by Giuseppe Barbieri; On the other side there are still parts of the former medieval building. Inside, the church has three naves separated by columns with rich capitals, marble altars and various paintings of the ‘700. It was in the middle of the seventeenth century that a new church was decided to build, since the flourishing trade on the river Adige increased and the size of the old church was no longer sufficient; Its construction began in 1753 on a project of Pompeii but was then completed by Daniele Peracca, an architect and sculptor active in Verona in those years, a document of 1755 mentions him as a designer.