St. Igino, Gattico
Itineraries From the Park all around
Minitour Gattico (3/3) 
There is scarce historical information about the small community of St. Igino. The Roman church, today restructured as a private home, was perhaps related to a small rural settlement whose name is unknown today.
No archeological artifacts earlier than the Middle Ages, which are usually found around Roman buildings, were dug up. It is nevertheless said that in front of the façade some tombs were found, which are traditionally attributed to the friars of Comignago’s St. Spirit Abbey. As a matter of fact, the place was connected to that village by a track.
In the courtyard a beautiful ancient well is fed by a pure spring. The building is dated 1125 - 1150 and the correct dedication is to St. Eugene, according to the most ancient mention in documents (1387). It was one of the ten chapels of Gattico’s parish.
In 1595 Bishop Bascapè decreed it should be abandoned.
The perimetral buttressed walls, the herring-bone pattern, a beautiful single light window made up of just three stones skillfully hewn can still be seen watching the building with the help of the plan here reproduced. Nevertheless, the façade was enlarged and a door was opened in the apse, which was restructured as a cellar.
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