Piazza Santo Stefano, 3, 23030
Built in the Romanesque period, the church of Santa Maria was a Marian centre of reference for the area, well before the foundation of the Grosotto sanctuary.
Gradually enlarged, today it is literally leaning against the Romanesque octagonal baptistery of St John the Baptist, inside which a rare immersion baptismal font dating back to the time of the first Christianisation of the valley (6th-7th century) was found. It possessed furnishings and fittings worthy of a parish church, but all that remains to document such richness is almost only a delightful Renaissance polyptych with doors. The church is bare, but the side facing the street preserves fragments of frescoes. Part of the church complex are a porticoed space, the oratory of the
confreres Disciplini and, not far away, the former plebana of St. Stephen.
