20의 페라라 디 몬테 발도가지 명소 & 주요 장소

A magnificent altar with lots of marble and gold inside the pilgrimage church.

Beautiful pilgrimage chapel with a magnificent view of Lake Garda.

The church is open daily from 9am to 6pm from Easter to October.

From this point you can enjoy a wonderful, if not the best, view of the rock church of Madonna della Corona near Spiazzi. On the way to the pilgrimage church you pass a Stations of the Cross with life-size figures and you keep looking down into the Adige Valley. The highest pilgrimage church in Italy is at an altitude of 773 meters and was built directly into and on the rock face. It is unmistakable that the church has merged with the rock, because the west and parts of the north wall consist largely of the rock of the mountain. The wall behind the altar of the Madonna della Corona is unusual and contains the miraculous image, a figure of the Virgin Mary with the body of Jesus on her knees (Pietà), surrounded by a crown of thorns and five groups of angels. The pilgrimage church was built in the 15th century, but there is said to have been a hermit church there from the 12th century. In 1982 the church was given the title “Basilica minor” and on April 17, 1988, Pope John Paul II visited the place of pilgrimage.

Built on the ruins of an ancient temple, later converted into a castle, it houses the « Casa Santa », a small temple believed to date back to 800 AD. The richly frescoed interior (frescoes of the Giottesque school) houses, among other things, what was once the largest vow in Europe, dating from the early 16th century. The Sanctuary of Montecastello (Santuario Madonna della Stella) owes its name to the miraculous apparition of a « star » which put an end to a bloody battle at Tignale in 1200.

Madonna della Corona Pilgrimage Church near Spiazzi and a footpath with Stations of the Cross, 15 stations and life-size bronze figures leads from there to the church. The well-known place of pilgrimage nestles at a height (774 m above sea level) on a vertical rock face and is worth a visit simply because of this spectacular location. At first monks who belonged to the San Zeno monastery of Verona lived here, in 1434 the Santuario passed to the Maltese Cross Order. The sanctuary is located in Spiazzi, a hamlet of Caprino, and can be reached via the provincial road coming from Caprino. Alternatively, there is a two-hour hike along a pilgrimage route from Brentino, a hamlet on the east side of Monte Baldo. It's all uphill!

There are two ways of translating the name "Madonna della Corona" of this impressive sanctuary into German: * According to the first interpretation, Corona is the crown or the crowned one, so you could translate it as "Mother of God with a crown" or "Crowned Mother of God" (in German-speaking countries we would rather use the term "Queen of Heaven" for this). * According to another interpretation (which can be found on Wikipedia), Corona is an ancient word for rock or stone wall, so the name would refer to the location of this sanctuary.

A good way to get to Monte Baldo, but then hit the hiking trails! There's so much to discover.