Lavagno

The district of Lavagno is 15 kilometres apart from Verona and it includes the community of San Bricco, San Pietro and Vago. In the district many archaeological finds from pre - Roman times were found. It also assumes there was a village near San Bricco, dating from between the seventh and sixth centuries BC. More settlements were built in Roman times, also thanks to the Via Postumia. In the Middle Ages the heights were preferred over the plain because they were easily defensible. Many families acquired lands in the area where they also built their villas.

Villa Zannini has eighteenth-century origins and shows a horizontal body in the middle, while the side areas are used as dwellings of the employee staff. The architecture is elegant, especially in the lower part, with a framed door. In the center of the tympanum there is the coat of arms of the Da Porto family. All around the park it is also preserved an ancient icebox.

Villa Castagna, dating from the twelfth century, was a monastery, later demolished by the bombing of the wars; you can still admire the spiral staircase and the current winery.

In the territory of Lavagno it has always been strong monastic presence, especially in the past two centuries under the Bishop of Verona. The oldest complex is the monastery of San Giuliano di Lepia, which dates from the twelfth century.

The Church of St. James of Grigliano was built in the late fourteenth century and has a Gothic style. Inside frescoes painted by a master of Altichiero School are preserved, perhaps Martino da Verona. Even the sacred furnishings are works of art produced in the Verona area.

The Fort of San Briccio was erected in the nineteenth century by the Italian military Genius. It was built on a fifteenth century church. In the past years houses the Museum of Rural Culture and Show of Prehistory. The Fort is a trapezoidal building, made in stone and brick.