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ACQUEDOTTO LA NAVE
Aqueduct ‘La Nave’ (The ship) is located in Castellaro near Rio Ginestra, a small stream. It's an important historical monument of Sala Baganza district. Its current appearance dates back to Ranuccio I Farnese ( XVI century). It was built to irrigate the fields higher than Sala, on an old aqueduct of the XIII century. It seems that in the 1980s there was still a tourist sign to indicate it.
As for the ship preservation, the first "cry of alarm" came from the magazine "FOR VAL BAGANZA 1984" edited by Centro Studi Valbaganza. The article reported the "self-destruction" of the ship as shown by some photos and it was a call for public administrators and private citizens to intervene before it was too late.
Aqueduct ‘La Nave’ (The ship) is located in Castellaro near Rio Ginestra, a small stream. It's an important historical monument of Sala Baganza district. Its current appearance dates back to Ranuccio I Farnese ( XVI century). It was built to irrigate the fields higher than Sala, on an old aqueduct of the XIII century. It seems that in the 1980s there was still a tourist sign to indicate it.
As for the ship preservation, the first "cry of alarm" came from the magazine "FOR VAL BAGANZA 1984" edited by Centro Studi Valbaganza. The article reported the "self-destruction" of the ship as shown by some photos and it was a call for public administrators and private citizens to intervene before it was too late.
ORATORIO SANTA VERGINE (Holy Virgin oratory)
It stands on a hill in a grove of chestnut trees in the resort of San Vitale Baganza and is also known as "Oratorio Castellaro" for the presence of a castle.
It was built around 1620 on the remains of a pre-existing religious building, which dates back to 1230. Object of worship is the seventeenth-century ‘Madonna and Child’ attributed to Abbot Peroni. The painting, located behind the altar of the church, is framed within an oval gilt wood.
The current building, simple and elegant with a single nave, was rebuilt under the parish priest of San Vitale: Don Giuseppe Lucchi, who is entrusted with the oratory. During the works of renovation it was discovered that the oratory was built on an underlying room where there was a small hole; inside there was a crypt. The sacellum, a small shrine, is 7.50 mt. long, 3.85 mt. wide and it’s got a central vault which, at the center, is 2.10 mt. high. From this, a rough iron hook probably used to hang lamps. The oratory was solemnly blessed on 12th September 1716.
It stands on a hill in a grove of chestnut trees in the resort of San Vitale Baganza and is also known as "Oratorio Castellaro" for the presence of a castle.
It was built around 1620 on the remains of a pre-existing religious building, which dates back to 1230. Object of worship is the seventeenth-century ‘Madonna and Child’ attributed to Abbot Peroni. The painting, located behind the altar of the church, is framed within an oval gilt wood.
The current building, simple and elegant with a single nave, was rebuilt under the parish priest of San Vitale: Don Giuseppe Lucchi, who is entrusted with the oratory. During the works of renovation it was discovered that the oratory was built on an underlying room where there was a small hole; inside there was a crypt. The sacellum, a small shrine, is 7.50 mt. long, 3.85 mt. wide and it’s got a central vault which, at the center, is 2.10 mt. high. From this, a rough iron hook probably used to hang lamps. The oratory was solemnly blessed on 12th September 1716.
