Chiesa dell’Immacolata

The Church of the Immaculate is located in Piazza della Repubblica in Dro, a few meters away from the Church of Saints Sisinio, Martyrdom and Alexander.

The idea of building a church in Dro dates back to 1831. The first project of the church dates back to 1853. The first project involved the total demolition of the ancient curacy dedicated to Saints Sisinio, Martyrdom and Alexander, as well as the partial demolition of some privately owned buildings located near the building. The demolition and reconstruction project was rejected because it was too expensive.

The church was built between 1858 and 1876. In 1874 to make room for the factory of the new church is demolished the nave and chapels of the ancient church of Saints Sisinio, Martyrdom and Alexander. On 20 January 1877 the church was blessed and in 1896 it was consecrated by the bishop of Trento Eugenio Carlo Valussi. In 1910 the painter Francesco Giustiniani decorated the vaults and the presbytery. On 24 October 1914 it was erected as a parish.

Interiors of chiesa dell’Immacolata

The Church of the Immaculate Conception was built between 1858 and 1876. The project is by the Trentino engineer Michele Mayer. The nave of the ancient parish church dedicated to Saints Sisinio, Martirio and Alessandro was demolished.

Only the presbytery remained standing. The building, oriented to the south-east, has a facade with two sloping walls narrow between lateral pilasters and characterized by a high base rusticated stone within which opens the portal and at the top by a cornice hanging arches that finishes it at the top.

On the sides there are two large arched windows, in turn surmounted by a rose window. The sides, punctuated by three pilasters on the side, recall the motifs of the plinth and the cornice with hanging arches of the facade. The church has a rectangular plan with a longitudinal major axis and six symmetrical side chapels overlooking the nave.

The presbytery, rectangular in plan, is raised on three steps and is concluded by a semicircular apse. The interior decoration is total, with linear motifs of neo-Romanesque taste performed in tempera along the walls and frescoes on the cross vaults of the nave and the presbytery.