Chapel of St. Adalbert

Opening times:
• from 18th June 2023 to 30th September 2024, from Friday to Sunday 9:30am-7pm

Information:

  • Free admission

The Chapel of Sant'Adalberto located in the Park of Gocciadoro in Trento is open to the public on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. The Association OF open churches, with its volunteers, active citizens is committed to ensuring openness to the public, as a treasure to be valued and guarded, the Chapel of Sant'Adalberto in the Park of Gocciadoro, the most important and most visited park in the city of Trento. The activity is part of the collaboration pact called "To open churches: in the City of the Council, a suspended bridge between culture and spirituality" signed between the municipal administration and the Association "To open churches".

Immersed in the greenery of the Gocciadoro park since 1873, after being overwhelmed by the signs of time and various, unfortunate acts of vandalism, it was rediscovered thanks to the intervention of the Municipality of Trento, this true jewel of art, with which the lawyer Pietro Bernardelli wanted to remember his beloved nephew Adalberto, who had just died when he was sixteen.

Pietro Bernardelli (1803-1868), an educated lawyer from Trentino, a member of the parliament of Vienna, inherited the entire estate and the park from his father and inside, he wanted to place the chapel, built however only in 1872, four years after the death of the client. One of the most famous painters of the time was hired for the altarpiece: Eugenio Prati.

The project was entrusted to the engineer Francesco Saverio Tamanini.

Entirely covered in stone, the building has an octagonal plan with a polygonal apse and a protire with twin columns. From the covers, in porphyry slabs, a lantern with a bell stands out. The pediment is outlined by blind arches, while the sides of the main body end in an arcaded gallery, according to the styles of Romanesque architecture, carefully studied in Trento during the restorations carried out to the cathedral's factory, from which the chapel of Gocciadoro is clearly inspired.

Deconsecrated in 1975, it remained abandoned for a long time: it suffered ruinous water infiltrations, theft and serious vandalism, including the destruction of the windows. In 1995 it was purchased by the Municipality with the intention of recovering it as an important testimony of nineteenth-century architecture, but in the following years it was again targeted by vandals. The restoration work designed in 2004 and carried out between 2010 and 2011 by the Public Building Service of the Municipality under the supervision of the Superintendence restored dignity and charm to the building and the park that surrounds it.

Information and contacts

Places: TRENTO

organization

Via dei Giardini, 32 – 38122 Trento TN

info@achieseaperte.it

Phone: +390461884111

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