Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista

Very nice and well kept church

Parish church of Lugo Vicentino located on a hill in the town

The majestic and imposing Archpriest Church of San Giovanni Battista stands on the hill on which the historic center of the beautiful and historic village of Lugo Vicentino clings. Neo-classical building, with a single wide nave, large Side Altars, solemn the High Altar that dominates the vast Presbytery. The façade remained unfinished until the end of the 1930s, when the very young Archpriest Don Giovanni Mocellini (later Monsignor and Archpriest of the Prelatizia Parish of Montagnana, then Bishop first of Comacchio and then of Adria based in Rovigo) Lugo Church an elevation - in a suggestive Lombard Neo-Renaissance style - worthy of the religious and historical importance of the Sacred Temple. We are in the Province of Vicenza and the Diocese of Padua (His Excellency Mons. Giovanni Mocellini, Archpriest here at the age of 29 before passing, with the insignificant Prelatic Title of Protonotary Apostolic "ad instar participantium", 35 years old at the Archpriest of Montagnana with its beautiful and vast Gothic-Renaissance Cathedral, where, elected at the age of 49 by Pius XII to the Diocese of Comacchio, he received the episcopal consecration from his Bishop of Padua, the unforgettable and unforgettable Monsignor Bartolomeo Girolamo Bortignon of the Capuchin Franciscan Friars, belonged to the diocesan clergy of Padua). And despite the terrible years of the Second World War, he succeeded. The bell tower remained that, provisional, low, disproportionately low compared to the adjacent dominant Archpriest, but it is always suggestive, and it almost seems to be able to touch the bells placed in their cell. But the position of the Arcipretale-Campanile Church complex, on the top of the hill that towers over the entire town of Lugo Vicentino, compensates for the very narrow height of the Bell "Tower", and the tolling of the Sacre Squille located there can be heard throughout the vast territory of the Parish. .