Church of San Giovanni Battista

Many medieval hospices of the hospitaller orders of the Templars and the Knights of Jerusalem were dedicated to San Giovanni Battista. The first record of a San Giovanni hospital in Lonigo dates back to 1410, near the bridge over the Fiume Nuovo (the Guà) towards San Bonifacio. The current Church of San Giovanni Battista, attached to the hospital buildings, was built in 1836 to a design by engineer Foscolo of Padua.

The classical façade is articulated by four pilasters with Corinthian capitals, centered by an elegant portal and pediment. The interior with a single nave contains in a niche, to the left of the main altar, a statue in soft stone representing San Giovanni Battista.

An inscription indicates that it was transferred to this church in 1882 from the deconsecrated one on the bridge of the same name.

Three prestigious paintings are preserved there. The altarpiece of the Beheading of San Giovanni Battista, dated 1620, is attributed to the painter Carlo Ridolfi. The other two eighteenth-century canvases come from suppressed churches in Lonigo: the Baptism of Christ (attributed to Adamo Negrina) and the Madonna of the Rosary.