VENUES / ROTONDA DI SAN LORENZO

The church of the ” Rotonda “, so called familiarly by the Mantuan people, is dedicated to San Lorenzo and is the oldest existing church in Mantua today. Built in the second half of the year 1000, in the Canossian period, perhaps on the remains of an ancient Roman temple, it has a circular shape inspired by the chapel of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

It was probably part of the pilgrimage route to the relic of the Holy Blood, the most important of Christianity, found in the year 804 and still preserved in Mantua in the basilica of Sant’Andrea. Thousands of pilgrims, for over twelve centuries, have come here to pray in front of the Sacred Vessels where the blood of Jesus collected by the Roman centurion Longinus is kept.

The church of San Lorenzo, closed to worship and deconsecrated in 1579, was covered and hidden by buildings until its memory was lost. Only in 1906, by demolishing the buildings that supported it, it was brought to light and restored. Owned by the State Property, it is granted in concession to the Dominican Province.

Stephen Waarts - Schulhoff, Veress, Ysaÿe

June 2, 2022 – 12.00
Rotonda di San Lorenzo

Danusha Waskiewicz - Bach

June 2, 2022 – 7.00 pm
Rotonda di San Lorenzo

Kelemen Quartet - Bartók

2 June 2022 – 11.30 pm
Rotonda di San Lorenzo

Ilya Gringolts - Guillemain, Silvestrov, Bach

June 3, 2022 – 12.00
Rotonda di San Lorenzo

Nurit Stark - Enescu, Kurtág

June 3, 2022 – 7.00 pm
Rotonda di San Lorenzo

Tommaso Lonquich, Michele Torresetti, Andrea Mascetti, Giulia Arnaboldi, Giacomo Grava - Brahms

June 3, 2022 – 11.30 pm
Rotonda di San Lorenzo

Jonian Ilias Kadesha, Vashti Hunter - Bach, Xenakis, Ravel

June 4, 2022 – 12.00
Rotonda di San Lorenzo

Giovanni Gnocchi - Bach

June 4, 2022 – 7.00 pm
Rotonda di San Lorenzo

Reto Bieri, Barnabás Kelemen, Lawrence Power, Katalin Kokas, Nicolas Altstaedt - Veress, Kodály

4 June 2022 – 11.30 pm
Rotonda di San Lorenzo

Miriam Prandi - Bach

June 5, 2022 – 12.00
Rotonda di San Lorenzo