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Oratory of San Rocco, Moltrasio

Visit duration
5–15 min
Booking
Not required
Area
First Basin
The oratory's polygonal stone apse, with a cartouche at the top and a plaque, on the square among colourful houses and a few parked scooters; behind, the wooded mountain.Kaitu · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Kaitu · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Kaitu · CC BY-SA 4.0

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The oratory's polygonal stone apse, with a cartouche at the top and a plaque, on the square among colourful houses and a few parked scooters; behind, the wooded mountain.

Kaitu · CC BY-SA 4.0

Why go

San Rocco is a small oratory on Moltrasio's pier square, with a Baroque doorway and a fresco by Giovanni Paolo Recchi.

The building probably has fifteenth-century origins. The doorway has a stucco cherub's head and small scrolls; above it, a shell-decorated medallion bears the dedication to the saint from Montpellier. The single nave ends in a polygonal apse. On the altar, a stucco frame surrounds the Virgin and Child between Saints Roch and Sebastian, a damaged fresco from the first half of the seventeenth century, covered by another painting during the 1926 restoration. A portico joins the church to the Albergo Posta building, already recorded in the Theresian land register. The oratory is also known as San Sebastiano.

  • The little Baroque oratory on the pier square, two steps from the boat.
  • The fresco of the Virgin between Saints Roch and Sebastian, in its stucco frame.

Highlights

  • The doorway with its stucco cherub's head
  • The medallion naming Saint Roch
  • The polygonal apse

Getting there

  • It stands on Piazza San Rocco, on the lake, opposite the boat pier; the C110 bus stops in the village.

Accessibility

  • The oratory is on the ground floor.

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Sources and credits

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Verified at source1 Oct 2026Comune di Moltrasioopens in a new tab