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C10 - Spiazzi/Croce/Santuario della Corona
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Overview

A way to discover the origins of the devotion of the Madonna della Corona, views of Lake Garda, Monte Baldo and Valdadige. A beautiful view.

To be seen

The Sanctuary of the Madonna della Corona, the Village with its characteristic wooden houses, the Croce contrada, the original core of Spiazzi.

A way to discover the origins of the devotion of the Madonna della Corona, views of Lake Garda, Monte Baldo and Valdadige. A beautiful view.

 

You start from the Don Luigi Vezzola square. Crossing the square walking between Albergo Corona and the restaurant you will reach the street named Strada Graziani. Go down to your left for about ten meters, on your right you will find the small road that passes through the houses and takes another path which leads to the village with its typical wooden buildings. At the crossroad, keep right where the path climbs and leads to the Croce contrada, the oldest historical center of Spiazzi.

Wooden buildings

Villaggio

 

Croce contrada

Contrada Croce

Some people believe that in the early Middle Ages the Cross was a monastery. The fact is that the reports of visitors to Monte Baldo between the 1500s and 1600s, speak of the Marian Shrine of the Crown and only mention the historical town of Crosatti because it had a hostel to accomodate visitor. Towards the end of the nineteenth century the center of the village where we find the cross was called the Little Pari. It was equipped with a tavern (the Lampione), accommodation, a private elementary school and also a station for the financial police whose barracks were located in the courtyard. About a hundred people lived there, some workshops with about twenty workers making religious objects in bone. The raw material was ox shanks worked with the help of the file and a lathe, an artisan activity that remained active until the early decades of the twentieth century. The courtyard was originally closed with four protective doors, “Porta Viveri”, Porta Lupi or Viandanti, Porta Latrine and Porta Morti. The last door “Porta Morti” which translated means “Deaths Door” leads to the Cemetery of Ferrara.

Porta viveri

Porta Viveri

Going through the door continue on the path with a fence, this is a panoramic point where you can admire the Lessini Mountains, Corno D'Aquilio, Fosse and Erbezzo from left to right; in the center the Lagarina valley, Monte Cimo and the village of Spiazzi, the Po valley, Lake Garda and Monte Baldo.

Panoramic point

Spiazzi - Staccionata panoramica

At the end of the road, keep right, cross Piazzale Giovanni Paolo II, take the road - or the stairways – that will bring you to the Sanctuary of the Madonna della Corona.

Sanctuary of the Madonna della Corona

Santuario della Madonna della Corona

Suspended between heaven and earth, from this marvellous 16th century sanctuary you can have an extraordinary view of the Valdadige. Return back on the same path, keep left and you arrive at the starting point in the small square of Spiazzi.

Quick Info

  • Maximum altitude 924 meters
  • Difference in altitude 125 meters
  • Distance 3,5 km
  • Time Foot: 1 hour and 30 minutes
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