The church of Saint Clement ( it, Chiesa di San Clemente) lies in the territory of the
Vezza d'Oglio
Vezza d'Oglio ( Camunian: ) is a ''comune'' in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, northern Italy. It is located in the upper Camonica Valley.
Origins of the name
Legend has it that a flood destroyed the ancient town of Rosolina, on the det ...
comune
The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces (''province''). The can also ...
in
Valcamonica
Val Camonica (also ''Valcamonica'' or Camonica Valley, Eastern Lombard: ''Al Camònega'') is one of the largest valleys of the central Alps, in eastern Lombardy, Italy. It extends about from the Tonale Pass to Corna Trentapassi, in the ...
,
Brescia
Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo. ...
province.
It can be reached by following an unpaved road from central Vezza until reaching a spur of rock offering a wide view on the underlying valley.
Only the bell tower, adorned by a double row of mullioned windows, remains of the original medieval structure; the body of the church was rebuilt in the 16th century.
It is believed that a religious guest accommodation was located in the neighborhood of the church, which, although itself located some height above the valley bottom, once lied on the hillside transit route.
According to Gregorio Brunelli this church was the original parish church of Vezza d'Oglio, but contemporary scholars believe this interpretation to be wrong.
In 1580, cardinal
Carlo Borromeo
Charles Borromeo ( it, Carlo Borromeo; la, Carolus Borromeus; 2 October 1538 – 3 November 1584) was the Archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584 and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was a leading figure of the Counter-Reformation combat ...
ordered a complete renewal of the icanttype church: the date on the
architrave
In classical architecture, an architrave (; from it, architrave "chief beam", also called an epistyle; from Greek ἐπίστυλον ''epistylon'' "door frame") is the lintel or beam that rests on the capitals of columns.
The term can ...
, 1585, suggests this was completed in a relatively short time.
References
* {{Cite book, last=Barbarisi , first=Gaetano , author2=Gianluigi Tagliabue , title= L'armonia della materia - un percorso dentro l'architettura religiosa della Valcamonica fra decimo e tredicesimo secolo , year=1993, publisher=Società Editrice Vallecamonica , location=Darfo Boario Terme, page=136, language=Italian
See also
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Valcamonica
Val Camonica (also ''Valcamonica'' or Camonica Valley, Eastern Lombard: ''Al Camònega'') is one of the largest valleys of the central Alps, in eastern Lombardy, Italy. It extends about from the Tonale Pass to Corna Trentapassi, in the ...
Clemente Clemente is both an Italian, Spanish and Portuguese surname and a given name. Notable people with the surname include:
Surname
* Aldo Di Clemente (born 1948), Italian amateur astronomer
* Anna Clemente (born 1994), Italian racewalker
* Ari Clement ...
16th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy