Descrizione
Although today hidden and with the facade facing the opposite side of the road, the church of San Michele has an ancient foundation. Cited as ‘Our Lady of St Michael’ or Sancta Maria a miraculis in a document of 1159, it was located in an area described as outside the walls. The name Riva vecla, suggests that it was central in the ancient location of the city.
Seat of important public acts in the twelfth century. The Church of San Michele was the recipient of many legacies and therefore became very rich and powerful, like the brotherhood that took its name and that took care of the sick, the dying and the suffrages.
In 1303 he hosted Friar Dolcino, a heretic preacher who was burned at the stake a few years later. Friar Dolcino gathered several followers in the Lower Sarca, tried between 1333 and 1334 at the convent of San Francesco in Riva. Already at the end of the eighteenth century it was in poor condition and was about to be demolished; it was only after the Second World War that it was cleaned up and arranged by the National Alpine Association to which it is now dedicated.
Source: comune.rivadelgarda.tn.it
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