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Chiesa di San Nicolò, Borgo d'Anaunia

Val di Non

Churches and sanctuaries · Borgo d'Anaunia · Val di Non

Chiesa di San Nicolò

It was enlarged in 1420 because the pieve had been damaged in war.

Chiesa di San Nicolò
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A first chapel dedicated to San Nicolò existed in Castelfondo by the fourteenth century. Frederick IV of Habsburg, Count of Tyrol, stated in one of his deeds that it was enlarged between 1420 and 1421, and explained the reason: the old pieve of Santa Maria had been damaged during the clashes with Enrico VI di Rottenburg over supremacy in Tyrol, which at that time also included the Trentino.

About twenty years later the church was enlarged again and consecrated, taking on the role of pieve of Melango, which was the old name of Castelfondo.

In the first half of the sixteenth century it was rebuilt, and from 1526 it began to be enriched with frescoes. The records of a pastoral visit in 1537 confirm that the work was still in progress and the building close to completion.

Enlargement
1420-1421
Frescoes
from 1526
Dedicated to
Nicholas of Bari
Protection
Italian cultural heritage property

Trails that pass through here

From the register of alpine trails of the Autonomous Province of Trento. © SAT.

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