The church of the Holy Apostles has early Christian foundations, but it was rebuilt in the twelfth century. Several times again until the eighteenth century and finally rebuilt after the last war. Of the Romanesque building just the outer walls, the apse and the bell tower remain.
The interior has been completely remodeled and reduced from three to one aisle in the sixteenth century. The sacristy leads to the basement church of Saints Teuteria and Tosca. The cult of Teuteria dates back to the Dark Ages, while the Tosca appears in the twelfth century.
The church was consecrated in 751, but an existing building is attested since the fifth century. In 1160 it was consecrated again when the bodies of the two saints were found, then placed in a marble tomb. Inside the church, on the altar of the eighteenth century, is the ark of the Saints Teuteria and Tosca. The case is made of red marble of the twelfth century, while the gray marble sculptures inserted in the front were added in the fifteenth century.
Right of the altar is the tomb of Francesco Bevilacqua, adviser to Cangrande II, the first of the family to be buried here in 1368. In front of that is the white marble ark dedicated to three brothers Bevilacqua, of the sixteenth century. The urn-shaped chest of the sixteenth century shows the sculpted figures of the three theological virtues. In one corner of the church is the large baptismal font of the thirteenth century, in a single block of marble.
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