Pieve Santa Maria Assunta
Pieve Santa Maria Assunta in Garda, it is part of the churches before the year one thousand in the Garda area, its circumscription bordered the parish church of Malcesine to the north, the parish church of Lazise to the south and the parish church of Caprino to the east, towards the Monte Baldo massif.
Pieve Santa Maria Assunta stands at the foot of Mount San Giorgio, where once there was a fortification and now there is the hermitage of the Camaldolese, a short distance from the lake, inside the Old Village that coincides with a first settlement built again in the era Roman imperial, although the later fortified center of Gardaplana developed a little further to the north. The parish church of Santa Maria Assunta was rebuilt after the earthquake of 1117 and of that period maintains the architectural structure, while the current building dates from the 16th century with heavy renovations undergone between the 18th and 19th centuries; of the previous parish church of the high medieval age there is no information on the position, on an archaeological basis we know of the presence of a Lombard church in what was the port square of those times, where now is Via Cavour and Via della Libertà. In the current building, however, there are various medieval and high architectural elements including a longobard pergula arch and a San Vigilio oolite stone sarcophagus dating from the 8th to the 9th century. Inside the church complex, in the sacristy, one could identify a church dating back to the end of the X or beginning of the eleventh century which would correspond to Santa Maria Antica; next to it there is a cloister with a trapezoidal-shaped courtyard overlooked by buildings from different eras and then incorporated into a single function between the 15th and 16th centuries. The bell tower was built in 1571 while inside it is possible to admire the confessionals of Brustolon, a papacy of Innocent II is carved in marble near the bell tower, a wooden crucifix from the 15th, an altarpiece by San Biagio and a fresco of the Madonna with Child of the fifteenth century.
foto Petr Jakubka