San Martino, Parish church in Valle di Cadore, Italy.
San Martino is the parish church of Valle di Cadore, built between 1718 and 1719 and consecrated in 1736. Its presbytery was rebuilt in 1873 after being judged unsafe. The church stands in the centre of the village, not on a rock formation, and its interior holds the high altar flanked by statues of Saints Mark and Lawrence.
Valle di Cadore became the seat of a pieve on 21 March 1208, when its territory was detached from the pieve of Santa Maria Nascente. The church was rebuilt in the 16th century, and the present parish church was built between 1718 and 1719 and consecrated in 1736. The presbytery, judged unsafe, was rebuilt in 1873.
The parish became the seat of a pieve on 21 March 1208, when its territory was split from the pieve of Santa Maria Nascente. Inside, the altarpiece of the Transito dei Santi Giuseppe, Giovanni Battista e Gaetano Thiene and the side altar of the Anime, with a painting by Antonio Lazzarini showing the Crucifixion with the souls in purgatory, remain in place.
The church reopened for worship on 1 May 2023 after consolidation work against the monitored landslide that had made it unusable since March 2021. It stands in the centre of Valle di Cadore, in the province of Belluno and the diocese of Belluno-Feltre, within the Ampezzo-Cadore-Comelico forane convergence.
The church holds a statue of the Madonna and Child carved by Giuseppe Stuflesser, a sculptor from Val Gardena, alongside a statue of Saint Michael and one of John the Baptist. The side altar of the Souls carries a painting by Antonio Lazzarini showing the Crucified Christ with the Souls of Purgatory.
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