Chiesa di Sant'Anna

A first church was built at Rabbi Fonti around 1785. Fifty years later it was no longer enough, and the reason is written plainly in the records: between 1835 and 1836 it was rebuilt to accommodate the influx of tourists.

It is the most direct testimony we have of a fact that these valleys tend to forget: tourism here did not begin in the twentieth century. Rabbi Fonti and Peio Fonti were already living off their therapeutic waters in the eighteenth century, and in Peio the first chapel dates from 1771; on the mountain of Mezzocorona in 1787 a private individual built a church for the use of holidaymakers. When this church was enlarged, the visitors were numerous enough to justify a building site.