La chiesa di Santa Maria della Misericordia

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This picturesque church, together with the Old School of the same name, overlooks an original and elegant field with red brick paving alternating with white Istrian stone.
It is like being in an atmospheric theatre setting, the charm of which increases exponentially on a foggy day, when everything seems shrouded in mist.

The church, initially dedicated to Santa Maria di Val Verde, is firmly intertwined with the fate of the Confraternity of Mercy which in the area built a series of infrastructures dedicated to the confreres, from the school to the hospital, from the hotel to the green areas. Before the Confraternity, the abbey church was managed first by hermits and then by friars, probably Augustinians.

The first construction, dating back to the 10th century, was possible thanks to the contribution of Cesare de Giuli and that of the Moro family and involved an insular grassy land called Val Verd

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