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Santo Stefano church

  
   From a small votive chapel to the church of the noble Lampughnani family

Dated back to the fourteenth century, it has got three series of paintings inside it: one dated to 1486, one to 1577 and another one to 1708.

The small church dedicated to St. Stephen is the oldest place of worship of St. Victor Olona appears in fact in the list of churches and altars of the diocese of Milan, compiled by the monk Goffredo da Bussero, at the end of the XIII century.
It preserves three cycles of frescoes inside: the Nativity, the Deposition and San Rocco are attributed to Gian Giacomo Lampugnani and are dated to 1487; the martyrdom of Santo Stefano was instead carried out in 1577 by a Lombard artist probably trained on Luino models. The third cycle of frescoes is 18th century and depicts St. Barnabas, St. Francis of Assisi and St. Francis Xavier both evangelical preachers and, at the center, Jesus Crucified who rests on human bones, the latter suggest that the small church was a place of burial.