Santa Maria dei Domenicani, Soave Santa Maria dei Domenicani, Soave Santa Maria dei Domenicani is a small, 15th-century, Roman Catholic church, located inside the Scaliger walls near Piazza dell’Antenna in Soave, province of Verona, region of Veneto, Italy. By 1443, the church and the nearby convent were commissioned and built by the Dominican friars. During the 17th century, a suppression of mendicant orders closed this convent. In 1659 the inhabitants of Soave requested permission from Venetian authorities to take possession of the site, pledging also to celebrate every year one hundred and two masses. In 1871 the convent was sold by the City and later
Swedish wine Swedish wine Swedish wine, in terms of wine produced commercially from grapes grown in Sweden, is a very marginal but growing industry which saw its first beginnings in the late 1990s. In less strict usage, the term "Swedish wine" has also been applied to fruit wine from Sweden, which has a very long tradition, and wine produced in Sweden from imported grape juice, which goes back longer than actual viticulture in Sweden. Sweden is well north of the area where the European vine, "Vitis vinifera", occurs naturally, and there is no tradition of wine production from grapes in the country.