Colognola ai Colli
MUNICIPALITY
The district of Colognola ai Colli is 14 kilometres apart from Verona, and it includes the community of Monte, Pieve, San Vittore, San Zeno, Strà and Villa or Pian, municipal head office. The richest Roman documentation of Val d'Illasi was found in this district: various types of inscriptions, ruins of a rustic villa, fragments of inscriptions, tombs and more.
Between the V and the VI centuries the first chapels were built. The small oratory, built on the ruins of the temple of Mercury, became Santa Maria della Pieve, between the XI and XII centuries. The exterior of the church has a very simple structure, devoid of decorative and liturgical elements. The Romanesque bell tower was rebuilt at the end of the XIX century. The interior has three naves, a main altar and two side altars, in Baroque style. Numerous frescoes, dating from the late thirteenth and mid-fifteenth century, were unearthed thanks to the restoration works. Unfortunately many of them were lost in 1630 due to whitewashing of the walls after the plague. In the eighteenth century, the statue of the "Madonna con Gesù in grembo" was installed and framed by a painting of an "Annunciazione."
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