Chiesa di San Giorgio di Campofontana

The existence of a chapel in Campofontana has been documented since the 14th century. It was a very small building, still existing and used as a weekday chapel. Detached from the parish of Selva di Progno, to which it was subordinate, it was established as an autonomous parish in 1606.

Starting from the same year, construction work began on a new, larger building, in the rural Romanesque style. Finally, in 1812 the Romanesque church was demolished to make way for the current neoclassical church, completed in 1825 and consecrated in 1834. The building features a facade with a pseudo-tetrastyle gable, facing south.

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

The internal façades are marked by simple pilasters on which a molded cornice connects the entire composition. The presbytery, introduced by a triumphal arch with a full semicircle, is defined in the corners by polystylist semi-columns; at the center of the apse wall is the altar painting set within aedicule frame made of polychrome marbles.

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

It features a gabled roof with a wooden supporting structure and a covering of terracotta tiles. The flooring of the nave is made of light Botticino marble slabs, while the presbytery is paved with Botticino and yellow nembro marble tiles arranged to form a geometric pattern.