Chiesa della Madonna di Caravaggio

Also known as the church of the Madonna dell'Aiuto, it was built where the cemetery chapel of San Rocco had previously stood, to honour a vow that the faithful of Mezzana had made to the Madonna. The building work, entrusted to Stefano Panizza, began in 1707 and ended four years later, but the façade was completed only in 1746, with the portal. On this the sources do not agree: others date the construction to 1780 and say that the site was chosen because the Madonna was said to have appeared there.

A devastating fire in 1862 made it necessary to rebuild the roofing, and the solemn consecration was celebrated on 17 August 1876. A second fire damaged it in 1904: the restoration, entrusted to Emilio Paor, involved repairing the load-bearing walls, rebuilding the roof and alterations to the façade.

It had been a place of pilgrimage for decades, and yet after the Second World War it ceased to host sacred services and was reduced to a storeroom of the nearby and older parish church of the Santi Pietro e Paolo. Only towards the end of the twentieth century was it decided to restore it: the work began in 1988 and the solemn reopening to the faithful was celebrated in 1999.