In the small square of San Giovanni is located, with its severe brick facade, the church of the same name, unfinished, more commonly known as San Giovannino. The first news of the church date back to the twelfth century. From the primitive structure, however, only the perimeter is preserved. The current structure dates back to the 16th century reconstruction, designed by Girolamo Casotti. The facade of the 16th century is unfinished. In a rectangular niche there is a modern mosaic depicting St Anthony of Padua.The interior preserves prestigious works, made in the early decades of the seventeenth century, so much so as to configure this artistic site as a test of artists there recently engaged in the Basilica della Ghiara. The paintings of the tribune are by the Parma artist Sisto Badalocchio, author of the "Return of Christ", fresco of 1613, which covers the dome and which cannot but remember the illustrious precedent of Correggio in Parma. The vault of the central nave presents, enclosed in daring illusionistic perspectives of the Brescian Tommaso Sandrini, frescoes by Lorenzo Franchi executed in 1614, representing Saint John who writes the Apocalypse (Vision of Saint John), Angels of the seven trumpets, Defeats of the devil.Impressive are the two large canvases by Alessandro Tiarini on the sides of the presbytery (executed in 1624): recently restored, they depict the transit of San Giovanni and the Martyrdom of San Giovanni and are among the most significant works of the Bolognese artist. In the apse basin, beautiful fresco by Paolo Giudotti. executed in 1613, depicting the Resurrection of Christ. In the second chapel on the left there is a fifteenth-century polychrome group in terracotta depicting the Mortorio of Christ, attributable, with the exception of the sixteenth-century Christ, attributed to Guido Mazzoni.

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