CHIESA DI SAN ROCCO

Ancient church of the seventeenth century. Very simple but worth visiting.

Documentary sources that help solve some open questions about the construction of the church are missing. Only a late report, drawn up on the occasion of a pastoral visit, in 1930, allows the current building to be attributed to works undertaken between 1630 and 1640. Inside the new building, a more ancient 16th century fresco was sheltered. of Guglielmo Jotti from Montegrino and belonging to a previous church existing in the town, with a dedication to St. Mary and demolished without leaving a trace. The church is located in the town of Ligurno, a mountain hamlet of Porto Valtravaglia. The construction is simple and is characterized, on the outside, by the small porch opened on the façade and the small bell tower, from the singular (but not infrequencies in the area) triangular plan. The building is the result of a single seventeenth-century construction phase; inside, covered with wide cross vaults, a fresco is preserved with the Madonna of Loreto, dating back to the early decades of the sixteenth century. and here transported from the ancient church of Santa Maria, existing in the same locality and demolished without leaving a trace. The church is developed in a single hall for rectangular faithful; on this is the large square chapel. Behind the presbytery, two doors lead to the rooms used for storage and sacristy. Structural installation The faithful classroom is resolved within a single, large span covered by a cross vault whose generous layout is referenced in the contemporary interior roofs of the S. Rocco di Brezzo di Bedero. The presbytery is also cross-turned. Along the left wall, above an altar base, a votive shrine frames the Madonna of Loreto, painted for another church by Guglielmo Jotti da Montegrino, who signed the work and dated it August 29, 1517. The ancient main altar, a late neoclassical work in polychrome marble, stands on the back wall of the presbytery. It contains a naive fresco, coeval but highly retouched, with the Madonna, Child and Saints Rocco and Sebastiano. The eighteenth-century balustrade delimiting towards the faithful classroom is preserved.