Chiesa parrocchiale di San Cassiano

The parish church of San Cassiano preserves the religious history of the Alta Badia village in a building reconstructed in 1782. Its clearly separated exterior volumes and pilastered interior give the church a more articulated character than its simple outline first suggests.

Why it matters

A village church is documented here in the fifteenth century. The later reconstruction links that medieval history with the architectural and devotional culture of the eighteenth century.

What to notice

The different parts of the building remain legible from outside, while pilasters divide the interior walls. A clothed processional figure of the Immaculate Virgin, attributed to the sculptor Dominikus Moling, represents the church's tradition of devotional sculpture.

Context and history

The fifteenth-century documentary reference and the rebuilding of 1782 belong to different stages of the church's history. The present architecture is therefore not simply the medieval church preserved intact, but the result of a later transformation within a much older parish setting.