Genazzano. Church of Saint John

Genazzano. Church of Saint John

The small church of Saint John is located in the square below the Colonna castle in Genazzano and was mentioned for the first time in a deed in 1356.

Its simple form of a neoclassical temple reveals the many works of modification that have taken place over the centuries.

The church consists of a nave, with small side chapels, which ends with a presbytery for the high altar.

The church is characterized by a simple flat wooden roof and an organ placed above the entrance door.

Inside are kept some valuable works including a holy water font carved in the fifteenth century, a marble baptismal font with a fifteenth-century wooden cupola and a wooden statue of the Madonna.


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Benedicta Lee

Born in Rome from an Italian mother and American father, she works as a freelance communications manager and designer in the tourism sector, a career and interest which she is pursuing with a...

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