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Trentino-Alto Adige
Chiesa dei Domenicani
Address: Via CappucciniThe Chiesa dei Domenicani (Dominican monastery) has frescoes of fifteenth-century courtly life painted on the walls of the decaying cloisters, framed by a growth of stone tracery. The Cappella di San Giovanni, built at the beginning of the fourteenth century, retains frescoes by painters of the Giotto school, including a Triumph of Death underneath a starry vault. Follow the street north to Piazza Erbe, site of a daily fruit and vegetable market, from where the oriel windows and eleventh-century arcades of Via Portici lead off to the right.