San Marco Chapel – View of Illasi and vineyards loop from Soave

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San Marco Chapel – View of Illasi and vineyards loop from Soave

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San Marco Chapel – View of Illasi and vineyards loop from Soave

02:44

9.69km

200m

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Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

Last updated: August 22, 2026

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View of the vineyards and Soave from Bocca Scalucce

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Fast and very fun, not too demanding and technical

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View of Colognola ai Colli Vineyards

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San Marco Chapel

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It was built in 1958 by the illustrious professor Alberto Trabucchi for his devotion to San Marco.
The style takes up and reinterprets the pure structure of the medieval-Romanesque churches scattered along our valley. The façade, enriched in the upper part by a circular window called "eye", is a hut, preceded by a portico with three round arches. The roof, with overhanging eaves, has two pitches, covered with Venetian tiles.
The interior space evokes in its sobriety the meditative and prayer spirit typical of these "small" temples. The bell tower has a quadrangular plan and in the belfry there are nine bells, famous for the concerts held every year for the trophy in memory of Professor Alberto Trabucchi. Its verticality fits naturally with the severity of the surrounding cypresses. Even this sacred place, although recently built, embodies the typical architecture of the place in its volumes. The chromatic and landscape harmony of the materials make the church of San Marco pleasing to the eye, in symbiosis and synergy with the surrounding environment.

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View of Illasi and vineyards

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Beautiful view of Illasi, with a view of the vineyards.

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Chiesetta di Ballarina

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nice to visit

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Church of San Colombano

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Since 1400 ", writes a parish priest of 1700," a chapel or oratory has been erected beyond the mountains under the title of San Colombano, of reason and dominion of the community of Illasi, with a miraculous image of Maria Santissima (.. .). There is a rumor that it had a cemetery around it on the occasion of contagions suffered, to bury corpses, where there was a long and hooked fero to attract them to the burial ".

The church of San Colombano has always been at the center of the attention of popular piety, which on many occasions has resorted to the miraculous image mentioned above: a fresco (probably made on the occasion of the extension works of the church organized by the Pompeii family in 1600 ) placed, since 1823, above the main altar. Epidemics and famines experienced by the people of Illasi have had, over the centuries, the Madonna di San Colombano as a point of reference and reason for hope.

Of the many votive processions, today still survives after 150 years, that of the second Sunday of May, which commemorates the grace granted by the Virgin on the occasion of the "cholera morbus" of 1835.

Other frescoes, dating back to 1400, can be seen on the internal and external walls of the church. The two figures of saints on either side of the presbytery were recently discovered and restored, by the will of Don Alessandro Bennati.

The Municipality of Illasi proved to be the owner of the small temple around the middle of 1500; previously it seems to have belonged to the Pompei family. Over the centuries, numerous religious succeeded one another in the custody of the church.

The church was restored in 1970, with the contribution of the parishioners of Illasi.

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