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in Rome's church of San Benedetto Mals a real gem Carolingian art.

not far from Merano and halfway with Glorenza and Reschenpass is Mals, all known for on towers and buildings can be seen as soon as you arrive inpaese

This ccntro known for this feature are also, and this is undoubtedly the most valuable artistic side, the small church of San Benedetto one of the oldest in the Tyrol

This is the wonderful church of San Benedtto dating largely all'XIsecolo.

It became in 1165 the property of the Benedictine nuns who headed the church in San Benedetto , has a building made up of the Carolingian rectangular plan and three apses of which only two walls.

Since the seventeenth century for reasons of stability are demolished two walls of the structure Carolingian (west and south walls). In the same century the apses are also buffered with waste materials and the frescoes are plastered. The church was desecrated at the end of the eighteenth century, used as a warehouse and then as a carpenter, and only much later the frescoes were discovered between 1913 and 1915.

The most important work of art is represented by the remains of frescoes dating from the ninth century, one of the few texts moianze of wall painting in Carolingian Europe.

The central altar is dedicated the figure of Christ, lateral San Gregorio and Santo Stefano.

The whole church was once covered with frescoes, but the traces of most of the scenes are unfortunately minimal. Some have speculated that the cycle depict episodes from the life of King David, considered in conjunction with the restoration of imperial Charlemagne himself.

It is also adjacent to the church deanery of Mals Frolich the tower about 33 meters high, which dates from about the 1250th year

is what remains of a medieval castle, whose walls stood around in a square. Even today you can see a few ruins. .

in the surrounding area are also archaeological Roman