Chiesa di San Rocco

Before the church, this site was home to a Celtic-Rhaetian fortress: excavations and research have uncovered weapons and household items that confirm it. The first church dedicated to San Rocco was probably built after an epidemic of plague that struck the area in 1495, and it was consecrated in 1500 by the suffragan bishop of Trento, Francesco De la Chiesa.

In the sixteenth century the interior was decorated with frescoes, and traces of that work remain in the presbytery: around the middle of the seventeenth century the building was enlarged with the larger nave that we see today, and in that period a pastoral visit ordered that the frescoes be covered over. After years of neglect, at the beginning of the twentieth century the church was restored in its masonry structures and in the floor of the hall.

In 1915 the space in front of the façade, which had previously been part of the churchyard, was used as a cemetery for the Austro-Hungarian soldiers killed in the First World War. The building has an unusual form: it is enclosed by a wall, it is entered through a porch with a lime-wood shingle roof like the rest of the roofing, and at the top stands a bell gable with a single bell.