Pieve di San Floriano Martire, San Pietro in Cariano, Verona Province, Valpollicella. Veneto Italy
Historical documents mention its existence as early as the year 905, although the present building dates from the twelfth century. The church was built on the site where once was a pagan cemetery, as evidenced by the large use of Roman marbles and stones, including two large burial cairns. Other remains of funeral altars are found in the driveway next to the church, toward the In some documents dating from the eleventh and twelfth centuries may be aware that his power ecclesiasiastico covered the territories that today constitute the common Marano, San Pietro in Cariano, Fumane and Pescantina. It was indeed at the head of one of three piovadenghi when it was administratively divided the Valpolicella. The others were actually the parish of St. George and the church of Negrar The cloister on the south side Besides the church, whose facade made entirely of tufa, the complex has a seventeenth-century cloister and an impressive bell tower located on the north side of the church. The base of that tower, is in stone as the barrel continues to alternate rows of tuff and then baked to finish with only the brick belfry. The church has often been the subject of revivals until 1743, on increasingly removed from the Romanesque style.
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Location: Pieve di San Floriano Martire, San Pietro in Cariano, Verona Province, Valpollicella. Veneto Italy
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