Chiesa Vecchia di Cavalo

In places Cavalo there are two churches: the parish church and the Old Church. The latter was built in the fifteenth century on the structure of an earlier Romanesque church age, that period have been preserved down bell tower in white limestone, a means of capital and the wall of the northern side. Currently the church has a simple façade, given the divided space of a single nave, and a bezel with the remains of a fresco.
All ‘inside are painted decorations eighteenth-century baptismal font and a free registration.
The frescoes were executed entirely by Paolo Ligozzi in 161. In 175 Antonio Simbenati instead painted the altarpiece depicting the Assumption. In the chancel frescoes representing St. Benedict with the Rule and San Zeno, San Rocco and San Sebastiano. In 198, during the reconstruction of the pavement, was discovered Roman sacrificial altar dedicated to the goddess Lualda, venerated by the primitive population of Valpolicella, the Arusnati. This would confirm that the monument was erected on the remains of a Fano dedicated to this goddess.