San Nicolò all'Arena is a Roman Catholic parish church in the historic centre of Verona, Italy dedicated to Saint Nicholas.
Reconstruction began on 21 March 1627 to designs of the architect Lellio Pellesina and the Romanesque church was demolished in 1630, but during that year work was interrupted due to a plague outbreak.
After the plague ended, a crypt dedicated to Christ the Redeemer was built within the church to commemorate deliverance from the outbreak.
San Sebastiano had been bombed during World War II, and its façade (which had been completed in 1830 by the architect Giuseppe Barbieri [it]) was dismantled and rebuilt at the new location between 1951 and 1953.
During the relocation, some changes had to be made to the façade to accommodate for the larger dimensions of San Nicolò all'Arena, including the construction of a concrete tympanum.
One of the chapels has the painting San Giovanni Battista nel deserto (St John the Baptist in the desert) by Antonio Balestra as its altarpiece.
[1] Below the presbytery there is the crypt which has three naves with barrel vaulted roofs separated by rows of low arches supported by pillars.