San Martino Vescovo Church, building in Legnago, Italy

San Martino Vescovo is the duomo of Legnago, built between 1779 and 1816 with a simple gabled facade of exposed brick. Inside, a raised presbytery with a domed ceiling closes the nave, flanked by an apsidal chapel and three smaller chapels. The apse holds Antonio Maria Perlotto Pomè's 480x350 cm oil of Saint Martin, and the bell tower carries six bells cast by Achille and Ettore Cavadini in 1901.

The pieve of Legnago is first documented in 1140; rebuilt with three naves between the late 14th and early 15th centuries, it was consecrated in 1416 by Bishop Guido Memo. In 1777 the convent of Sant'Antonio was demolished to make way for the present duomo, built from 1779 and consecrated on 5 March 1816; the old pieve was demolished in 1802. The bell tower was raised in 1823–1833, the floor remade in 1838–1843, and the building restored between 2000 and 2010.

The name of the church honours Saint Martin of Tours, bishop of Tours, whose figure appears in the apse altarpiece: an oil on canvas of 480x350 cm by Antonio Maria Perlotto Pomè, given by the community as a votive offering after the Adige flood of 1839. In it the saint sends an angel with an olive branch to calm the river, and at his feet lies a 19th-century view of Legnago.

The interior is a single hall ending in a raised presbytery under a domed ceiling, with an apsidal chapel and three smaller chapels along the sides. The two 18th-century organs sit high on the left and right of the presbytery, joined into one instrument in the 20th century and restored in the 1990s. Look up to spot them.

The apse altarpiece of Saint Martin, an oil on canvas of 480 by 350 cm by Antonio Maria Perlotto Pomè, was a votive gift from the people of Legnago after the Adige flood of 1839; it shows the saint sending an angel with an olive branch to calm the river, with an 19th-century view of the town at his feet.