Sant’Ambrogio di Valpolicella in the Veneto region
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Sant’Ambrogio di Valpolicella (
Venetian : Sant’Anbroxio) is a
comune (municipality) in the
Province of Verona in the
Italian region
Veneto , located about 120 kilometres (75 miles) west of
Venice and about 15 km (9 mi) northwest of
Verona . Sant’Ambrogio di Valpolicella borders the following municipalities:
Cavaion Veronese ,
Dolcè ,
Fumane ,
Pastrengo ,
Pescantina ,
Rivoli Veronese , and
San Pietro in Cariano .
Sant’Ambrogio di Valpolicella is located in an important wine-growing region where the Valpolicella of the same name is produced. The Recioto della Valpolicella is also made here. The Strada Statale 12 dell’Abetone e del Brennero runs through the municipality from Verona to Trento . The nearest train station is in the district of Domegliara on the Brenner Railway from Verona to Innsbruck .
Santa Maria della Misericordia in Gargagnago © Adert/cc-by-sa-3.0
Sights include the Romanesque
pieve of San Giorgio, built in the 12th century over a
Lombard (and perhaps pre-
Roman ) religious place. The interior has a nave and two aisles, of the same height, divided by piers. Some of the latter are decorated by 14th-century paintings. The basements of the columns are re-used Roman altars. The church houses also 11th-century frescoes, including a
Last Supper ; also notable is the
ciborium , built during the reign of the Lombard king
Liutprand (711-744). The bell tower and the cloister are also from the 12th century.
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