Albana Mels Castle

The pieve (parish church) stands at the end of the village, in the valley of the Chiarò stream. The building dates back to the years spanning the 14th and 15th centuries, although devotional worship dedicated to the patron saints of the Patriarchate of Aquileia is documented as early as 1200. Following the earthquakes of 1511 and 1513, the building underwent restorations according to the model prevalent in the Slavia Friulana region, carried out by stonemasons followers of Master Andrea from Škofja Loka. At the time of its foundation, the parish was equipped with a small cemetery; to the right of the presbytery, a sacristy was later built, which was recently demolished to widen the road leading to Mezzomonte. This small church was also requisitioned for military use by the authorities between 1915 and 1918.
A small fenced churchyard leads to the atrium, open on three sides. The façade features a bifora bell tower at the top of the roof; the masonry is in roughly squared stone with exposed corners; the roof is in tiles on a wooden structure. A pointed arch door framed in stone leads into the rectangular nave, illuminated by two still rectangular windows; the ceiling has exposed beams. A pointed triumphal arch opens onto the polygonal presbytery, ribbed with rays that gather in the center on a stone disc depicting the sun. Inside, a marble altar houses the relics of the titular saints, and a 17th-century holy water stoup on a pedestal in worked stone is preserved.