{"id":24531,"date":"2014-09-08T09:48:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T07:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gardatourism.it\/chiesa-di-san-tommaso-2\/"},"modified":"2017-10-02T18:44:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T16:44:09","slug":"church-san-tomaso-riva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardatourism.it\/en\/church-san-tomaso-riva\/","title":{"rendered":"Church San Tomaso of Canterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Church San Tomaso of Canterbury<\/h2>\n<h4>in Riva del Garda along the road to Arco<\/h4>\n<p>Church San Tomaso of Canterbury rises near the border of the Riva and Arco territories; was built according to the will of Odorico, Conte d&#8217;Arco, consecrated in 1194 and then devoted to St. Thomas Becket, bishop of Canterbury, killed in 1170, alongside the count also wanted the leprosy to be built;\u00a0this explains the distance of the church by the towns of Riva and Arco , then fortified cities . The church is in Romanesque style built with walls made of blocks of well-squared stone , semi-circular apse and a gable roof , the exterior frescoes are of the fourteenth century and the bell tower , simple and elegant , is of a later period . The interior of the church of St. Thomas has a single nave roof with wood paneled six side windows , two sides and two rosettes, one on the front , one on the apse . Were only a few parts of the frescoes in the apse, representing the twelve apostles , the archangel Gabriel, parts of the Annunciation and two bishops , one with a beard , a book in his left hand in his right hand and pastoral , depicting St. Thomas and one more identified in the blessed young Adelpreto .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardatourism.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/chiesa-s-tommaso-riva-0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-28673 size-medium\" title=\"Church San Tomaso Riva Lake Garda Italy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gardatourism.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/chiesa-s-tommaso-riva-0-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"Church San Tomaso Riva Lake Garda Italy\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church San Tomaso of Canterbury in Riva del Garda along the road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,1244],"tags":[],"comune":[1629],"class_list":["post-24531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-churches-and-sacred","category-romano-sul-garda","comune-riva-del-garda"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardatourism.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardatourism.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardatourism.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardatourism.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardatourism.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardatourism.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28676,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardatourism.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24531\/revisions\/28676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardatourism.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardatourism.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardatourism.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24531"},{"taxonomy":"comune","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardatourism.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comune?post=24531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}