Church San Marco
Church San Marco
at Mazzano di Negrar in Valpolicella
Church San Marco Is located in a panoramic position on the Negrar valley, facing the facade of the building. From the find of a Roman epigraph dedicated to Jupiter, now walled on the west side, it is believed that the church was built on a pre-existing Roman temple. The first Christian building was built around the 12th century and it was a chapel in San Fermo, and in a testamentary document of 1222 it was learned that it was dependent on the church of San Martino in Tours in Negrar, this until the middle of the fifteenth century, then He goes to the church of St. Paul in Prun; From the 16th century the church was named in St. Mark, perhaps in gratitude to the Serenissima. In 1757 it was reconstructed in its present form, with two facades on the facade supporting a pediment and a bezel fitted with glazed windows above the entrance, although the façade recalls three inner naves, inside there is a single nave, paving in red squares Verona and Biancone, there is a blade of Nicola Marcola (1736-177) depicting the presentation of the virgin to the temple.
foto di Osvaldo Sorio