Beheading of Saint John the Baptist church, Church in Tione di Trento, Italy

The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist Church, also known as Chiesa Decollazione di San Giovanni Battista, stands alone along a road between Saone and Ponte Arche, surrounded by a large meadow. The facade has three rounded arches, a granite entrance door, and a small brick bell tower with a pyramid-shaped roof.

The first church on this site was built around 1616 in the village of Villa Inferiore, which was later destroyed by a flood. The current building was reconstructed and blessed in 1893 at its present location.

The church sits outside the center of Tione di Trento, along a road between Saone and Ponte Arche, and the open meadow around it makes it easy to spot. As it is an active place of worship, visitors should dress modestly and keep noise to a minimum.

The sixteenth-century detached fresco on the presbytery's right wall came from the earlier church and is attributed to the Lombard school. The apse holds a painted majolica altarpiece in bas-relief by Luciano Carnessali. The historic high altar was destroyed; the granite altar facing the people now stands in the centre.