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Cremia

San Michele, Cremia

Cremia's parish church since 1551, once the church of a convent of Umiliate nuns, with a large Saint Michael attributed to Veronese on the high altar and a gold-ground polyptych attributed to Borgognone.

Visit duration
15–30 min
Booking
Not required
Area
Centro Lago
Illustration: an interior, until a photograph of the church of San Michele at Cremia is available.Illustration

Why go

San Michele is Cremia's parish church, in the hamlet of Vignola.

It replaced San Vito in 1551 and belonged to a convent of the Umiliate.

The single nave has eighteenth-century chapels; a porch on two columns stands before the façade. Above the main altar is a sixteenth-century canvas of the Archangel Michael piercing Lucifer, attributed to Veronese and given by the merchant Battista Pizzetti. A polyptych attributed to Borgognone, with six panels on a gold ground, came from San Vito. The baptismal font combines a basin dated 1533, donated by emigrants from Cremia living in Genoa, with a pedestal dated 1577.

  • The scagliola high altar bears the signature of Gaetano Rava, a craftsman from the Val d'Intelvi, and the date 1732.
  • In the Rosary chapel, decorated in the first half of the eighteenth century, the fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary are painted in separate panels.
  • By the entrance to the sacristy hangs Giuseppe Antonio Petrini's Apparition of the Virgin to Saint Jerome, brought from the parish church of Delebio.

Highlights

  • The Archangel Michael piercing Lucifer on the high altar
  • The fifteenth-century polyptych attributed to Borgognone
  • The marble tabernacle of 1504
  • The font of 1533

Getting there

  • It stands on Piazza della Gloria, in the Vignola quarter of Cremia, the same square as the town hall.

On the map

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