Chiesa San Clemente

According to tradition, this sacred building, with a single nave and coffered ceiling, was to be a small copy of the Basilica of San Clemente in Rome. It was restored and enlarged in the period between 1656 and 1666. Starting from 1684 the Capuchin fathers, parish priests of Grono, made significant changes to the church. There are two testimonies worthy of note in the church of S. Clemente: the main altar of Gothic style and, always in the choir, two stained glass windows of 1561 depicting the Saints Rocco and Sebastiano patrons of the Confraternity and the diocesan Saints Lucio and Florino, the Saints Peter and Paul and a pope (San Clemente). In 1700 the floods of the Rià di Mort, which descends between Castaneda and Calone, caused various damages to the church. On the west and south façade of the church of San Clemente in Grono there are two sundials of the eighteenth century. The one to the west shows the Italian time, while the one to the south shows both the local and Italic solar time.