» CAPPELLA di S. DEFENDENTE e di S.ROCCO (CHAPEL OF St. DEFENDENTE and St. ROCCO)

The chapel is just outside the railings and Maresco door which has now disappeared. It already existed in 1668. Of rather simple construction, the façade is adorned by pilaster strips and cornices and a magnificent walnut door with two shutters, set off by 18th century sculpted panels. Inside, is the high altar in lacquered wood with painted flowers; on the right wall there are two communicating chapels: one dedicated to Saint Rocco and the other to Saint Victor in memory of the parish priest of the parish now disappeared. The first chapel dates from 1799 and the second from 1820. The sacristy cabinet is magnificent, finely sculpted in walnut and dating from 1790 and comes from the demolished church of St. Mary Magdalene of Maresco. Inside the church, originally from another church judging by its large size, is an oil panting on canvas portraying the glory of the Eucharist with the adoring Madonna. A grave stone in the floor records the burial of the last parish priest of the church of Maresco, Don Carlo Mossotto, in 1838

» CHIESA di SAN CARLO (CHURCH OF SAINT CHARLES)

Before 1817, the diocese of Asti was under suffrage to that of Milan which explains the large number of churches named after the illustrious Bishop of Milan, Saint Charles.
This of Montechiaro was certainly among the first to bear this name, because at only 25 years from his beatification, the church was already in need of repair work
It has always been the property of the Falletti family