San Giovanni is one of the oldest Ladin parishes, whose origins, according to historians, date back to the Lombard or Carolingian period.
The current Alpine Gothic style is the result of the reconstruction of the second half of the 15th century. Once a reference point for all the faithful of the community, the church, with its 12th-century crypt dedicated to San Michele Arcangelo, still preserves some valuable works. Among them, the marble baptistery and the large altarpiece painted in 1786 by a young Antonio Longo, which depicts the baptism of Jesus with a baroque style that mixes with the neoclassical. The parish church is then embellished with a nineteenth-century neo-Gothic wooden altar, Via Crucis by the Fassano Tita Pederiva and a presbytery, on the right side of which are two precious eighteenth-century canvases, the Madonna and Child and the Trinity. Outside, at the base of the bell tower, 67 metres high, you can read the traces of an imposing fresco by San Cristoforo, protector of wayfarers.

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The splendid glimpse towards Catinaccio and Sassolungo.