Chiesa di Santa Maria a Undas

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Getting there by public transport
Pieve Vecchia, a hamlet of Idro, is connected to Brescia by bus lines LN013 and S202 (run by Arriva company). For information, please visit the Arriva website https://www.arriva.it
Idro can be reached by ferry (Navigazione Lago d'Idro), which connects the villages overlooking the lake. The service is organized to welcome passengers with reduced mobility. For more information, please visit: https://www.vallesabbia.info/product/battello-lago-didro/

Parking area
The church is located in the village of Pieve Vecchia near the lake shore. Near the church there is a big parking area and 1 parking space is reserved for disabled pass holders. From the parking area a staircase of 21 steps (18 cm high each) leads to the church square. People with disabilities, equipped with disabled passes, can park in the space in front of the church.

Entrance
The space in front of the church has grass surface. The façade is now without access and the entrance on the right side has a threshold (3 cm high) and a double leaf door (52 cm wide each).

Getting around
The church has a gabled structure, with a single nave. The church can be visited without obstacles and has benches with kneelers (seat height: 48 cm). The space is divided into spans with frescoes dating back to the fifteenth - sixteenth centuries. The masonry altar is unique in its kind and was discovered in the mid-twentieth century under an eighteenth-century altarpiece. To access the altar it is necessary to overcome 2 steps (15 cm high each).

The painting over the altar is a polyptych and, in its central part, depicts the Virgin enthroned with Child and four saints. On the walls of the nave and on the pillars there are other remains of frescoes of considerable interest and of historical and artistic value. The two side altars can be reached by passing a step (14 cm high).