Discover Church of the Eremitani

A wide brick church beside the Scrovegni Chapel's garden, with a plain gabled front and a vast open interior under a wooden ship's-keel ceiling — a single space with no aisles, so the whole length is visible from the door. The frescoed chapel at the east end is the reason to come, and much of what is on its walls was reassembled from fragments after wartime bombing.

The church is a wide single nave under a wooden ceiling shaped like an inverted ship's hull -- the same carpentry logic as the Palazzo della Ragione's roof, applied at smaller scale and for the same reason: it spans a broad space without internal supports.

The exterior is plain brick with a simple gabled front, typical of mendicant building where preaching space mattered more than display.

The Ovetari Chapel sits off the east end. Its reconstruction is deliberately legible: recovered fragments are set against neutral ground rather than infilled with painted guesswork, so what survives and what is lost remain distinguishable.