Chiesa delle Sante Faustina e Liberata, Capo di Ponte

The church of Saints Faustina and Liberata is located on the left side of the Oglio River in the municipality of Capo di Ponte in Valcamonica.

The present 17th-century structure rests on an earlier Romanesque chapel, now gone except for a fragment of the apse containing some frescoes.

The interior has a single nave with a barrel vault; it contains side chapels with altarpieces attributed to Lorenzo Marbello. Near the high altar is a leather antependium representing the two Saints, while above the altar is an altarpiece depicting the ascension, which is attributed to Palma the Younger.

Outside the church, in a chapel, there is a large boulder bearing six engraved handprints. According to tradition, they represent the hands of Saints Faustina and Liberata and St. Marcellus, who prevented the stone from collapsing on the village of Serio. In the past, scholars believed these handprints to be of prehistoric origin, forming part of the context of rock engravings in the Camonica Valley.

Recently, a study of the boulder, surrounding area, hagiography, and iconographic setting has cast doubt on the previous thesis; therefore, it is likely that the boulder was engraved around the 14th century, in historical times, to graft a niovo Christian cult.