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Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie, Cles

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Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie

In 1851 a hotel swallowed it up, and from the outside only the façade remains.

Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie
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From above

2109 metres from here

It was founded by don Giacomo Borghesi, parish priest of Terlano, who in 1687 established a benefice by leaving his family home, with the condition that a chapel dedicated to the Madonna delle Grazie be attached to it. The building was constructed by 1690 and blessed on 20 August 1691. It is also called the church of the Ausiliatrice, of the Madonnina or of the Santi Angeli, and it is a subsidiary of the parish church of Santa Maria Assunta in Cles.

In 1851 the whole building was incorporated into a new construction used as a hotel, first the albergo Chiesa and then the Grande Hotel, which left only the façade visible. It is still like this today: in the historic centre of Cles the church announces itself with a single gabled front, which barely projects from the nineteenth-century civil building. At the top the cornice forms a rectangle within which stands the bell cell, and above it a sculpture of the Virgin Mary.

Restored in 1885, it was decorated by Carlo Bonacina between 1946 and 1950, who frescoed its walls and placed in it the plaques of the Stations of the Cross.

Founded
1687
Blessed
20 August 1691
Incorporated into a hotel
1851
Dedicated to
Madonna delle Grazie

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