sentences:  The church was erected between 1994 and 1996 on the site of its 350-year-old predecessor, which was levelled by an avalanche in 1986.This catastrophe also claimed several of the homes in the village, although luckily no-one was injured in this event.The original church of San Giovanni Battista Decollato was built in 1626 and was initially a chapel of ease of the parish of Peccia.