Where is the church of Santa Maria Assunta in Maserada sul Piave?
The parish of Santa Maria Assunta is located at Via Don Pastega, 5, 31052 Varago di Maserada sul Piave (TV)
The structure of the parish of Santa Maria Assunta in Maserada sul Piave
The parish of Varago has a single nave along which two niches for confessionals and four chapels have been created, where the altars, placed in an elevated position, are accessible via red marble steps.
Polychrome stained glass windows in the parish of Santa Maria Assunta
Altars and sacred sculptures
The flooring
The church floor features a striking geometric checkerboard pattern made of precious white and red marble slabs.
The facade
Four pilasters topped with a fake Ionic capital each rest on a massive molded pedestal. The decorative columns divide the facade into three sectors richly frescoed with biblical and evangelical scenes. In the center of the facade is the entrance portal surmounted by an elegant tympanum. Above the pilasters stands the white classical entablature with a dentilled tympanum, adorned at the vertices with three statues depicting the Madonna at the top and two Saints placed laterally.
The bell tower
The majestic bell tower of the parish of Santa Maria Assunta in Varago di Maserada sul Piave rests on a massive base. The brick bell tower is adorned with pilasters connected by hanging arches. The bells are visible through mullioned windows in the bell chamber, surmounted by an octagonal spire.
When was the parish of Santa Maria Assunta built?
The current church was built on the site of the previous place of worship, destroyed by the devastating bombings of the Great War.
Pietro del Fabro
Born in Moruzzo in Friuli-Venezia Giulia in 1893. After obtaining his degree in 1929, he practiced as an architect until his death in 1971.
Among the most important monumental buildings he designed, the following deserve mention:
- The monumental cemetery of Verona, an octagonal building surmounted by a concrete dome housing the remains of 3,989 fallen of World War I. The shrine is preceded by a solemn pronaos where four Doric columns support the entablature bearing the Latin inscription MORTUIS IN BELLO MCMXV MCMXVIII.
- The ossuary of Bassano del Grappa: the grand building in Venetian Gothic with a Latin cross plan, distinguished by a large octagonal dome flanked by two 60-meter bell towers. The facade is divided by four pilasters that anticipate its salient profile. Above the three entrance portals, the central one being larger, three rose windows stand out: the central one with a diameter of ten meters, the lateral ones smaller.
- The military shrine of Fagarè Located at Via Postumia Est, 89, 31048, San Biagio di Callalta, the shrine is a white marble building in neoclassical style from the 1830s. The monument has a large exedra portico with nine naves with barrel vaults in the center. The chapel in the central nave is adorned with the mosaic L’Apoteosi and bronze sculptures representing “Angels in Prayer.” The side naves contain the remains of the fallen in the battles of the Piave.
