Cultural – historical – artistic offer

Commezzadura boasts ancient origins. Strolling in our tiny villages you’ll have an occasion to look at buildings of different periods of time, boasting diverse architectural styles.
If you are a curious tourist, enjoy the view of our noble mansions, dating back to past Centuries, when Commezzadura used to be part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, and plunge into the mood of the late Empire age.
A particularly noteworthy hamlet is MASTELLINA, known for being the native village of famous painter Francesco Guardi, with quite a few examples of rural noble mansions on the main street. Do not miss in particular Casa Guardi, decorated with a sacred wall painting and featuring stone window frames and a portal with the family coat of arms. The dates written on most stone portals, as well as on an imposing sacred wall painting bear witness to the fact that most dwellings date back to the Seventeenth Century. Particularly remarkable is the 15th Century church dedicated to Saint Anthony the abbot.

The church features a sloping façade with a beautiful red and white stone portal (1607), a bell tower with two rows of sleek single-lancet windows, with a stone cusp and four side pinnacles. The Fifteenth Century apse is decorated by some frescoed paintings by Baschenis. On the apse stands out a wooden tympanum, giving the church a somewhat Nordic aura. 
Mestriago welcomes visitors as a modern village. Here you will find the recently built townhall. Along today’s via del Comun (the Townhall’s street, there used to be the “Noria”, a large wooden wheel that was used to draw water out of a canal, that today is hosted in the Ethnographic Museum in San Michele all’Adige. The village’s old quarters are located higher up, around a central plaza and a small church dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, a simple building with a tiny wooden bell-tower and one single altar, that was manufactured in Simone Lenner’s workshop. (photo)
The hamlet known as Almazzago is lying on the slope and features a host of rural buildings and narrow roads. The church is dedicated to Saint Rocco was built in 1510 to keep a vow against the plague. The bell tower features a remarkable polygonal plan. Several houses in the hamlet still boast on their façades the remains of fine sacred wall paintings.

In Piano you will see Casa Podetti, that used to be decorated by remarkable wooden ceilings, that were sold to some Austrian noblemen in WW1 post-war period. The little church, dating back to the Seventeenth Century, is dedicated to Saint Joseph. The parvis is enclosed and enriched by an elegant Nineteenth Century prothyrum. In the interior, a fine Baroque altar of German make.
Deggiano hosts a church dedicated to the Holy Trinity, which is the only curial church in the Valley. The church has a little parvis housing a cemetery, with a stone portal dating back to 1611 on a sharp tympanum façade. The church, unlike other churches in the valley, has no apse. The bell tower features two rows of single-lancet windows, with wooden decorations and a pinnacle. At the village a house reminds us of a terrible fire that ravaged the hamlet in 1856.
Along the main road, the elegant church dedicated to Saint Agata stands as one of the most evocative spots in the Valley. The actual shape of the church dates back to the 16th and 17th Centuries, but there are witnesses of its existence as early as in the 15th Century. The recently-renovated interior features several wall paintings by Baschenis and a baroque-style altar decorated by late-Gothic triptychs.