S. Michele Arcangelo Church

A capital was originally erected here by Dr Michele Vecellio. He was born in Auronzo in 1640 and graduated in medicine in Padua in 1667; for his skill he was nicknamed 'Galen' in honour of the famous Greek physician. The capital stood on the meadows owned by Vecellio and was dedicated to the saint whose name it bore. In 1717, a chapel was built there in order to celebrate Holy Mass and thus offer the opportunity to attend it to those who worked there: Auronzans engaged in the hay harvest and woodcutters employed in the forest of San Marco, a forest that had belonged to the Serenissima Republic of Venice for centuries. In 1846, the chapel was demolished and replaced by the present church.