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Chiesa di Sant'Agnese, Denno

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Churches and sanctuaries · Denno · Val di Non

Chiesa di Sant'Agnese

Restored in 1975, emptied by a theft three years later.

Chiesa di Sant'Agnese
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A parchment of 1286, kept in the diocesan archive of Trento, mentions this church but with a dedication to Mary. The title remained that one until 1478, and from 1492 the new one began to be cited, to Sant'Agnese. The interior was frescoed in the fifteenth century, and the evidence lies in a few small parts of frames on the nave, at the bottom left, attributable to that period; a second campaign of frescoes came at the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

In 1650 the church was enriched with vaults supported by pillars, reinforced on the outside by buttresses, and the decoration of walls and vaults resumed; in 1695, during a pastoral visit, the altar of the Santa Croce was consecrated.

After years of little use and semi-abandonment, the cycle of frescoes was restored in 1975. Three years later, in 1978, a theft caused the loss of many of the decorations and furnishings of the wooden altars, and what had been saved was moved to the parish church of Santi Gervasio e Protasio. Two cycles of restoration have followed, in 1998 on plasterwork, frescoes and stone structures, and in 2013 on the roofs.

First mention
1286
Dedicated to Sant’Agnese
from 1492
Theft
1978
Dedicated to
Sant'Agnese

Trails that pass through here

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

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