Parish church San Giovanni Battista
The Parish church San Giovanni Battista, once of Santa Maria, is located in Pieve, the chief town of Tremosine.
The Parish church San Giovanni Battista is part of the Diocese of Brescia and his constituency consisted of a difficult terrain, marked by ravines and gullies, with small groups of houses connected by mountain paths and connected to the lake shore by a road halfway Lemon coast to or through the riverbed of the torrents; because of what there was in the twelfth century a proliferation of private churches and chapels that made it necessary in 1187 a papal bull of Urban III in which it was forbidden to build chapels without the consent of the archpriest or the Bishop of Brescia.
They were part of the district of the pieve church of Saint John: the church of San Lorenzo in Voltino, the hermitage of San Michele, St. Peter and St. Benedict in Vesio and other chapels located mainly along the path to a square shape that ran the limit of the plateau Tremosine.
The Parish church San Giovanni Battista is built on top of the rock wall that descends from the plateau overlooking the lake, where there was originally a chapel of the ‘eighth century dedicated to Santa Maria then demolished to make way for new construction in the second half of XII century who was also accompanied the bell tower; the latter has a square base, has pilasters with hanging arches and, in the belfry, are inserted fragments carved in stone the early Middle Ages. In the sixteenth century the church was modified by lengthening the nave and the current structure was given the late seventeenth and early seventeenth century, with the construction of altars and their decorations. Inside we find the altar of Our Lady of the Rosary and the Holy Family both dating from the seventeenth century, that of Our Lady of Miracles of the eighteenth century and those dedicated to the SS. Rocco and Valentino, the Immaculate Conception and the Last Supper.
In addition to the altars containing many precious works, such as the choir of the presbytery, the confessional and eighteenth-century wooden counter of the sacristy, the work of sculptor Giacomo Lucchini Trentino.
Finally, it adorns the altar a precious altar, a gift of Angelo Donati in this church, depicting the “Birth of St. John the Baptist” by the Barbieri.