Churches and sanctuaries · Contà · Val di Non
Chiesa della Natività di San Giovanni Battista
In the apse, a cycle of frescoes from 1485, by a Baschenis.

The pieve of Flavon appears in documents from 1242, and in 1290 a priest of the church is mentioned. Recent excavations have found a second apse to the north, with traces of fourteenth-century frescoes.
From the middle of the fifteenth century the building was enlarged to the plan it has today, with the main apse and two tangent ones. The pictorial cycle in the apse dates to around 1485 and is attributed to Angelo Baschenis, of the same Bergamo family that left its mark at Castel Valer, at Varollo and at Mestriago. The solemn consecration was celebrated in 1558.
The roof of the bell tower, rebuilt in 1844, is what still makes it possible today to recognise the church in the village skyline. After the First World War new bells were cast to replace the three requisitioned by the Austrians.
- Pieve since
- 1242
- Frescoes
- around 1485
- Dedicated to
- the nativity of John the Baptist
- Protection
- Italian cultural heritage asset