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Madonna delle Grazie
Madonna delle Grazie
short description of the church of the Madonna delle Grazie
The building of this church, with its traditional structure of a Latin cross divided into a nave and two aisles, was begun in 1522. The interior was to a large extent transformed by the addition of splendid plaster-work decorations during the 17th century. Among the paintings to be found in the church are: the “Blessed Virgin among St. Sebastian, St. Martin and St. Rocco”, attributed to Moretto, the beautiful “Miracle of St. Martin" by the Venetian Francesco Maffei and the “Nativity” by Pier Maria Bagnadore over the high altar. A fountain adorned with a bronze statue by Santo Callegari is to be found in the middle of a delightful cloister, which connects the church to the Shrine containing a sacred image of the Madonna, whose appearance today is the result of the reconstruction in neo-gothic style by the architect Giovanni Tagliaferri at the end of the 19th century.