verona visit (2)

In tis post: churches of Verona

I have blogged about the Church of Sant' Anastasia  before.  Here are a few more pictures from the interior.  It contains two wonderful holy water fonts supported by grosteque looking hunchbacks:

Here is a closeup of the Boldieri altar which includes a statue of St. Sebastian (on the left):

The Church of San Zeno is a little ways away from the centre of Verona but it is also worth a visit.  San Zeno is one of the patron saints of Verona so this was an important church.  It dates back to 1138.  The interior is quite large and open by comparison with the other churches I visited in Verona and was distinctive in having a split level upper part and lower part all accessible and visible from within.  It's massive doors were wonderful but none of my photos came out well enough to post.  Here's a picture from  the web to illustrate the amazing workmanship:

One thing that fascinated me about this church and its interior were the frescos:

and the fact that there were graffiti written on many of them:

You can see dates on some of the scribblings.   So, this is far from being a modern phenomenon!

There was also a lovely cloister attached:

My last picture is from the lower chapel in the Church of San Fermo:

I went to a free concert in the upper church on a sunday morning.  The upper church has a wooden ceiling that is decorated with portraits of many, many saints.