Church of Saint Thomas Becket

This guide to the Church of Saint Thomas Becket in Verona opens with a fifty-five-year building project and a bare, unfinished facade that Veronese storytellers long blamed on the architect Michele Sanmicheli, accusing him of walking off the job around 1545. It follows the archival digging that overturned that legend, and the Carmelite friars who actually spent decades chasing donations before consecrating the church in 1504. You'll also hear about the organ on the left, where a touring prodigy once sat down to play in January 1770. Look closely at the case before you listen for what he's said to have left on it.