The Church of Santa Corona in the city of Vicenza was listed as one of the sites which are related to Andrea Palladio, the architect who essentially elevated the city of Vicenza to the UNESCO World Heritage list. The church itself turned out to have been made sometime before Palladio was even born so that rules him out as the architect of the church. However, he did work on a part of the church which got the church included as part of the heritage list. I was still visiting the church itself and I was going through the parts of the church. This is no basilica but it has small chapels which are around the church.

The chapels look good but, and not to disparage the designers, they weren’t designed by Palladio. The chapels were typical chapels that I would see in other church. They are rather standard statues and paintings of religious figures that it didn’t really stand out too much for me. The chapel at the rear of the church was probably one of the more impressive ones. The apse of the chapel was richly decorated. The individual panels of the apse were painted with a different story to tell. It was hard to see what was actually painted there since I can only stand outside the chapel. At the center is a statue of of the Blessed Virgin Mary. If there was a relic of the crown of thorns here in the church, I would have expected it to be here in this chapel but there doesn’t seem to be one. Additionally, if it was really here, they would have allowed worshipers to approach and venerate the relic and not kept away from the faithful like this.

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