Churches and sanctuaries · Novella · Val di Non
Chiesa dei Santi Fabiano e Sebastiano
An eighteenth-century chapel remade to resemble the Lourdes grotto.

On the site stood a Romanesque church of the 12th century, whose remains were found by archaeological surveys, which also reconstructed its plan. The building was remade in 1537, the year of its first written mention: it appears in the records of the pastoral visit made in the territory by Cardinal and Prince Bishop Bernardo Clesio. The works of 1544 changed its Romanesque forms into Gothic ones.
The bell tower dates from the early years of the 18th century, and in the second half of the century a chapel dedicated to Saint Anthony was added. At the end of the 19th century that chapel was transformed to resemble the Lourdes grotto, with a sculptural group of Our Lady: French devotion arriving all the way here, and religious fashions that change the face of buildings just as civil ones do.
On the façade there remain fifteenth-century frescoes with Saints Maurice, Christopher, Fabian and Sebastian, and a Madonna and Child.
- Dedicated to
- Pope Fabian, Saint Sebastian
Trails that pass through here
- A32Route A32E4.8 kmabout 50 m away
From the register of alpine trails of the Autonomous Province of Trento. © SAT.