The main church is dedicated to San Giovanni Battista, the patron saint of Bossolasco. The first news of the church dates back to 1327. We know that in 1464 it was rebuilt and enlarged by the Marquis Manfredo Del Carretto. In 1737 the parish priest of Bossolasco Giovanni Benedetto Tarditi, native of San Benedetto, had the church repaired and in the same year it was consecrated by Monsignor Vasco. A few years later Giovanni Giordano from Turin sent the reliquary and relic of Saint John the Baptist as a gift. The interior is characterized by three naves covered by richly decorated ribbed cross vaults. The frescoes in the presbytery and apse were created in the 1930s by the painter Ovidio Fonti in imitation of fifteenth-century frescoes. The date 1926 is engraved on one of the stones with which this fountain was made.
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