San Giorgio in Braida, Renaissance church in Borgo Trento, Verona, Italy.

San Giorgio in Braida is a Renaissance church in Verona with a lead-grey ribbed dome topped by a lantern and cross. Its pale stone facade has two tall narrow windows, and a long brick side wall with stepped buttresses runs along the left. The interior has a single nave with eight side chapels, four on each side, each with a white marble altar.

The church grew from a Benedictine monastery founded in the 11th century and was given its current form in the 1500s under Michele Sanmicheli, who redesigned both the dome and the facade. The work took several generations to complete and was finished only after his death.

Inside, paintings by Paolo Veronese and Jacopo Tintoretto hang directly above the altars, placed there as devotional objects rather than museum pieces. Visitors can stand close to these works in the same space where they have always been.

The church sits on the north bank of the Adige, a short walk from the city center, and is easy to find along the riverside road. Visiting outside of Sunday morning hours gives more time to look around the interior without interruption.

The left wall still incorporates the base of the Romanesque bell tower, a remnant of the building probably rebuilt after the 1117 Verona earthquake. The bell tower itself was designed by Michele Sanmicheli and continued, but left unfinished, by his disciple Bernardino Brugnoli.