Parish Church of San Giorgio di Valpolicella information

Parish Church of San Giorgio di Valpolicella
Pieve di San Giorgio di Valpolicella
View of the western facade
Parish Church of San Giorgio di Valpolicella
45°32′07″N 10°51′00″E / 45.535278°N 10.85°E / 45.535278; 10.85
Location	Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella, Veneto, Italy
Denomination	Catholic
History
Dedication	Saint George
Architecture
Style	Lombard and Romanesque
Groundbreaking	7th - 8th century
Completed	11th century
Administration
Diocese	Roman Catholic Diocese of Verona

The parish church of San Giorgio di Valpolicella, also known as the parish church of San Giorgio Ingannapoltron,^{[note 1]} is an ancient Catholic place of worship located in San Giorgio di Valpolicella, a hamlet of Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella, in the province and diocese of Verona; it is also the seat of the parish of the same name included in the vicariate of Valpolicella.

Probably built on a site previously used for pagan worship dating back to the 8th century (according to some historians perhaps as far back as the 7th),^[1] the present religious building represents one of the most interesting and ancient examples of Romanesque architecture found in the province of Verona.^{[note 2]}

Largely rebuilt around the 11th century, the parish church of San Giorgio was at the head of one of the three "piovadeghi" into which Valpolicella was administratively divided; along with it, the parish churches of San Floriano and Negrar also held this role.^{[note 3][2]} It was also a collegiate church, the seat of a chapter of canons who also ran a schola iuniorum (i.e., a school in which the first notions of Latin grammar were taught to local boys, from among whom new clerics were often chosen).^[3][4]

In addition to the interesting architectural structure, the adjacent cloister and the frescoes inside, of great value is an ancient ciborium that has inscriptions placing it in the middle of the Lombard era, specifically in the period of Liutprand's reign.

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