The Church of the Madonna della Fontana is a church in Malcesine, located in Via Gardesana, about 1 kilometer away from Castello Scaligero. The church is called della Fontana (of the Fountain), because of a spring located nearby. SHORT HISTORY In 1532, a small oratory dedicated to the Virgin was built on this site by the Municipality of Malcesine. At the beginning of the 17th century, the need for a larger church appeared. The new church was completed and opened for worship in 1626. On July 25, 1797, the French of Napoleon Bonaparte closed the church, removed the registers and confiscated all the assets. In a state of neglect, the church was used as a warehouse during the First and the Second World War. After it was restored in 1959, the church was reopened for worship, and today is used only on specific holydays. ARCHITECTURE The facade of the church is plain, covered with yellow plaster. In the lower part of the facade, delimited from the upper one by a stone strip, there is a beautiful Baroque portal, surmounted by a tympanum and a coat of arms, flanked on the sides by two rectangular windows. In the upper Read more [...]
All Churches in Malcesine
Malcesine’s main church is the Church of Santo Stefano Protomartire, rooted in the Carolingian period and rebuilt in its present form from 1729 after the older parish church was demolished. Its history is tied to Saints Benigno and Caro, the hermits traditionally connected with the transfer of Saint Zeno’s body to Verona and local memory.
Other notable religious sites include the Church of Santa Maria di Navene, remembered in 11th-century documents and located five kilometers north of the town, near the lake. The 16th-century Madonna della Fontana is linked to a spring considered miraculous, while Saints Nicolò and Rocco preserves a 17th-century devotional character near Porto Square in Malcesine’s center.