Churches and sanctuaries · Novella · Val di Non
Chiesa di San Martino
The bell tower was built in 1694; the bell arrived in 1762.

Devotion to San Martino is very old, and the dedication has suggested that the church was built earlier; the first mention, however, is found only in 1537, in the records of a pastoral visit by the cardinal and prince-bishop of Trento Bernardo Clesio.
The altar of the titular saint was consecrated in 1649 by Jesse Perchoffer, suffragan bishop of Bressanone, who gave instructions to restore the wall decorations: those decorations were lost all the same. The small bell gable was built on the front of the building in 1694, but the bell to be placed there was made only in 1762, by the bell founder Pietro Saletti: almost seventy years of waiting.
The church stands in an elevated and solitary spot. The simple, double-pitched façade has in front of it a large, massive porch across its whole width; in the centre the portal is set in a broad frame which continues upwards into the structure of the bell gable. Inside, the nave is single and there is no separation between the hall and the presbytery.
- First mention
- 1537
- Bell gable
- 1694
- Bell
- 1762, by Pietro Saletti
- Dedicated to
- Martin of Tours
Trails that pass through here
- A30Route A30E10.3 kmabout 250 m away
From the register of alpine trails of the Autonomous Province of Trento. © SAT.