Descrizione
The Church of Sant’Anna is located at the beginning of Via Sant’Anna in the center of Arco. At the beginning the church was dedicated to Sant’Andrea. The present shape of the church of Sant’Anna dates back to the seventeenth century. The facade and the bell tower are from 1766. The church was known as the church of the Discipline, because it was originally kept by this brotherhood.
In the nineteenth century it was owned by the hospital of Arco and in 1891 the church was bought by the Collegiate for three hundred Austrian florins. In the meantime the church goes from Sant’Andrea to Sant’Anna.
Renovations were carried out in 1894. Renovation to prevent moisture infiltration caused mainly by the nearby presence of an ice house. In the same period a room leaning against the church is transformed into a chapel, dedicated to Saint Agnes, entrusted to the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary. On the upper floor there is a room used as a library and seat of the Catholic Youth Society of Arco, Oltresarca and Romarzollo.
During the First World War the bell tower was damaged by bombing. The nearby Marchetti palace and the chapel of Sant’Agnese is razed with the upper room. In 1974, the former duty building that stood next to the church on the south side was demolished. Between 1978 and 1979, complete renovations were carried out by architect Camillo Zucchelli from Arco.
Sant’Anna Church
The façade is punctuated by four pilasters resting on a high plinth and concluded by composite capitals in stucco, as well as in stucco modeled are the frames of the window to mixed light and the niches that flank it. Above the frieze with stylized triglyphs rises the curvilinear pediment. On the left side there are the bell tower with quadrangular plan with single lancet and onion cover and a porch supported by four columns. The interior with a single nave is illuminated by lunette windows on the south side and is completed by an elevated rectangular presbytery of a step, preceded by an arch in the middle and concluded on the east side by an environment used as a sacristy.
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