The church of Santi Rocco e Domenico, which in Conegliano is called San Rocco, stands on Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, between the Contrada Granda and the railway station. It is a seventeenth-century building, erected by the community as an ex-voto for the plague of 1630. It was born joined to a convent of Dominican nuns, which lasted until the first decade of the nineteenth century, when it was suppressed by the Napoleonic measures: only its guest quarters remain. Devotion to the saint was older: in the town there was already a votive chapel of St Roch, annexed in the fifteenth century to the church of the convent of San Francesco.
What to see
Outside, the building is the result of works of different periods. Today's façade is twentieth-century, the work of the architect Vincenzo Rinaldo, and was restored in 2002: it is divided into three parts by long Ionic pilaster strips, above which a pediment contains bas-reliefs; halfway up it has a rose window at the centre and two single-light windows at the sides, and at the bottom a portico of round arches. The right-hand wall, rough and unadorned, stands in contrast. Behind is a small bell tower, with a two-light window on each side, which ends in a crown and has no clock.
The interior has a single nave. The main work is the Mystic Marriage of St Catherine, a large altarpiece by Francesco Beccaruzzi. On the ceiling is the Apotheosis of Saints Roch and Dominic, frescoed in 1827 by Giovanni De Min, the artist who later painted the interiors of Villa Gera.
Visiting
Opening and Mass times should be checked on the spot or with the parish.
Our editors' tip
On the gallery on the inner façade there is an organ built in 1851 by Giovan Battista De Lorenzi and then altered several times in the twentieth century. It has two consoles, one in the gallery and one on the floor.
