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Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Cles

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Chiesa di San Lorenzo

It ended up inside Castel Firmian and became its private chapel.

Chiesa di San Lorenzo
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The church of San Lorenzo in Mechel may have been built around the twelfth century, although the sources do not agree; the first mention of it dates from 1390, when the building probably stood on lands belonging to the Sant'Ippolito family of Cles.

Its fate changed later, when it was absorbed into the structure of Castel Firmian and became the private chapel of that family: from village church to a room in a castle. In the first half of the sixteenth century it was rebuilt and consecrated by Girolamo Vascherio, suffragan bishop of Trento.

A restoration took place around 1836 and another in the last period of the twentieth century; during the most recent works, frescoes were found on the interior walls of the hall.

First mention
1390
Rebuilt
first half of the sixteenth century
Frescoes found
late twentieth century
Dedicated to
San Lorenzo

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