Chiesa di San Bartolomeo

Three different accounts circulate about its origins. One has it founded by miners in the medieval period, another built by families who had taken refuge here to escape an epidemic. The most established says that it belonged to a village called Pegaia, swept away around 1431 by an avalanche or a landslide that spared only the small shrine.

The records document it from the fifteenth century, but it could date from the thirteenth: in 1281 the Benedictines held possessions at Pegaia. At the beginning of the sixteenth century the chapel was enlarged with the present nave and consecrated on 22 August 1512 by Michele Iorba, with a dedication to Saints Bartholomew, Paul and Thomas, of whom today only the first remains as patron.

The following year, in 1513, Cristoforo II Baschenis painted the presbytery and the exterior wall facing east.