Church of the Precious Blood of the Lord and Our Lady of the Rosary
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The church was built around 1595 by Baron Pietro di Vallaise and consecrated on 17 July 1597 by the Bishop of Aosta Bartolomeo Ferreri; it served as the parish church until 1837, when the village church was built. The church, conceived as a miniature copy of Aosta's cathedral, is in exposed q stone, except for the façade, which is plastered and frescoed. The tripartite façade, with three arches punctuated by disce pilasters without capitals ending in stone canopies, concludes with a curved moulding that also appears in the side salients; in the centre is an oculus
- shaped opening. The interior and façade are decorated with frescoes contemporary with or shortly after the construction of the church itself, thus dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries. The portal has a candelabra and raceme decoration and is surmounted by a lunette depicting the Circumcision, flanked by the figures of two evangelists. Above are painted a false architrave and 'Adoration of the Shepherds The architrave supports a
*circular broken tympanum crowning on which is depicted the angel announcing the birth of Christ. The building has a rectangular ground plan with three naves, divided by frescoed pillars, covered by groin vaults with ribs; the apse is polygonal with an ambulatory that extends the side naves. The chapel of the Most Holy Rosary, built a few years after the church was built, opens into the right aisle. Outside the north aisle was the bell tower, demolished between 1839 and 1843 to obtain material to be used during the building of the new parish church.