San Giovanni Battista, Parish church in Gressoney-Saint-Jean, Italy.

San Giovanni Battista is a stone church on the Òbre Platz in Gressoney-Saint-Jean, built from 1515 on land given by the Battiany family. Its wide two-sloped roof shelters a facade with three entrance doors, a late-Gothic carved stone portal and, to the right of the main door, a bust of Queen Margherita placed in 1928. Inside, two side aisles are separated from the nave by monolithic granite columns, and the ceilings are sail vaults painted by Giovanni Stornone.

A church is documented at Gressoney in 1380, then at Gover, destroyed by a landslide. The present building dates to 1515, financed by land from the Battiany family and built by Antoine Goyet of Issime, whose late-Gothic stone portal inscription records the work. In 1731 Jean-Joseph Battiany donated land for two side aisles and the church was raised.

The parish celebrates its patron saint on 24 June with a Mass and a procession that carries the statue of Saint John the Baptist. The carved larch pews, made in the 18th century, have end panels with Bavarian motifs, a reminder that Gressonari traders travelled to Bavaria and some family branches settled there.

The church stands on the central Òbre Platz, with its main facade and three entrance doors facing the square. The 1928 bust of Queen Margherita sits to the right of the main door. The path she walked to Sunday mass is now called the "passeggiata della Regina".

The bust of Queen Margherita beside the main door was placed in 1928 because, during her 36 summers in Gressoney, she walked to Sunday mass here along the path now called the "passeggiata della Regina".