A small jewel of Baroque art
It was July 6, 1693, when the earth began to shake, and the tailor Pietro Stefani, who lived in the house behind the church, rushed out into the street in fear. Looking up, he noticed that the plaster had peeled away, revealing a fresco depicting the Virgin Mary. He then began to pray, and the tremors soon ceased without causing any casualties. This gave rise to the idea of building a church in thanksgiving around the miraculous image of the Virgin, which is still placed on the main altar. Church of Our Lady of the Earthquake, built with a single nave, is a small jewel of Baroque art.
A peculiarity: above the door is a bas-relief representing the city of Mantua during the 1693 earthquake, depicted by curved lines that seem to corrugate the ground.
