Montecchia di Crosara
MUNICIPALITY
The district of Montecchia di Crosara is 40 kilometers apart from Verona and it includes the community of Albarè, Castello, Grumolo, Meggiato e Tolotti. The waters of Alpone, the stream that flows from Bolca and flows into Adige, cross the entire territory. Due to the discovery of some inscriptions, human presence in this area is proven from the Roman Age. At the end of the tenth century, the territory became a feud of the son of Umberto Maltraversi, Lord of Padua and Vicenza. Later it became the property of the Della Scala family from Verona (XII century). Montecchia was then ruled by the Visconti from Milan and the Republic of Venice, becoming an independent municipality in 1745.
The San Salvatore Church is located on the top of the hill in the district of Castello. It was built in the tenth century, probably on the ruins of an ancient pagan temple, with a cruciform plan and three apses. In the following centuries it was subject to many structural interventions. The portico of the facade and the roof can be dated back to the nineteenth century. Today, the Romanesque building has a nave, with two apses facing the nave. Inside the cript, there are precious fresco paintings, executed between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. Under the porch there is a votive altar built in Roman Age, dedicated to Mars. The capitals of the four columns in the crypt belong to the same period.
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