Chiesa di Sant’Anastasia

Church Verona, Italy

The basilica of Santa Anastasia is an important place of Catholic worship in the historic center of Verona, located near the innermost point of the city from the Roman era, near the bend of the Adige river, where the Ponte Pietra stands. It retains the name of a pre-existing church from the Lombard era, dedicated to the virgin Anastasia, martyr of the 4th century. The building was located at the end of the decumanus maximus: the main Roman road of Verona which connected Porta Borsàri to the now disappeared Ponte Postumio. Around 1290, the Dominican order settled here and began the construction of the Gothic Basilica, dedicated to the martyr Saint Peter, a Dominican originally from Verona and patron, with Saint Zeno, of the city.