Chiesa di San Giorgio di Campofontana

The existence of a chapel in Campofontana is documented as early as the 14th century. However, between 1606 and 1613, the inhabitants of Campofontana built a new church in Romanesque style while preserving the 14th-century chapel.

During the 18th century, a wooden statue representing "Saint George on horseback piercing the dragon to save the princess" was commissioned and created. From then until today, every year on the first Sunday of May, the statue is carried in solemn procession to Durlo, a nearby town in the Vicenza region, to meet Saint Margaret (who is its patroness), according to an ancient tradition that anticipated an annual meeting of the two saints, both from the Middle East and lived during the time of Emperor Diocletian (285-304 AD). This annual event renews the friendship between the two towns.

In the first quarter of the 19th century, due to the significant population increase, the construction of a larger building became necessary. The Romanesque church was demolished, while the construction of the new neoclassical building, begun in 1812, was completed in 1825.

The building features a gable façade, with four red stone pilasters from Lessinia framing the rectangular entrance portal in local pink stone, topped by a small fronton. Above the portal is a rose window with a twelve-petal stained glass, while an elaborate iron cross stands at the apex, and two stone acroterial urns are placed at the side peaks.

The floor plan is a single rectangular nave, with a quadrangular presbytery raised by three steps, concluded with a semicircular apse. Along the sides of the nave are four minor altars: the altars of Saint Roch and Saint Joseph on the western side, and the altars of Our Lady of Sorrows and the Sacred Heart on the opposite side.

The interior environment of the church is characterized by a spacious and bright spatial layout, marked by a sober and harmonious architectural and decorative style. The internal façades are divided by simple pilasters on which a molded frame connects the entire composition. The presbytery, introduced by a full-arch triumphal arch, is defined at the corners by polystyle semi-pilasters; at the center of the apse wall is the altarpiece set in an aedicule frame made of polychrome marbles.

The nave is covered by a lowered barrel vault, decorated in the center with a fresco by the painter Rocco Pittaco from 1866, depicting the Ascension of Mary. The presbytery is topped by a lowered dome, also decorated with frescoes by Pittaco, and the apse is covered by a spherical half-dome.

The bell tower belonging to the 17th-century building, from which it was slightly detached, has a shaft devoid of prominent architectural elements, built with squared local stone blocks.