Art and culture Churches
Oratorio di San Bartolomeo - Ponna

Structural configuration: an example of Romanesque Benedictine architecture, the small oratory, built by the monks and linked to the monastery of S. Benedetto in Val Perlana, has a predominantly irregular exposed stone wall (whose restoration took place in 1975 by the APPACUVI Association). The church has a single nave with two spans covered by cross vaults which culminates in a semicircular apse, an architectural element of the original church which has still remained intact today: it has a semi-vault covered by a gneiss roof.

Inside it is possible to observe a Baroque altarpiece created by the artist G. Barelli. The façade is surmounted by a small lateral bell tower which can be traced back to a later architectural style.

Construction period: sec. XII

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