Discover Pieve di San Giorgio di Valpolicella

The church is a Romanesque basilica in local stone: three aisles, a raised presbytery, semicircular apses, and a plain gabled front. The masonry is the pale limestone of the Valpolicella hills, laid in regular courses.

Reused Roman material appears throughout -- column shafts, capitals, inscribed blocks -- taken from earlier structures on and around the site, which was normal practice and is unusually visible here.

The cloister on the south side is small, twelfth-century, with paired columns and simple carved capitals. It is one of the few Romanesque cloisters in the Veronese countryside to survive.

The ciborium of 712 is the outstanding object: a carved stone altar canopy from the Lombard period, with interlace ornament and an inscription recording its commissioning. Its fragments are now shown in the museum rather than in situ.

The detached bell tower is Romanesque and matches the church.