Pieve of San Giovanni Battista

Its origins go back to the Middle Ages

Coming from the Trossa Valley and taking a detour to the right a few kilometers before reaching the village, you arrive at a wide green meadow where a small church entirely built of stone stands.
This is the ancient Pieve di Micciano, dedicated to the worship of St. John the Baptist. Over time, the church underwent a series of modifications that significantly altered its original structure, to the extent that its original façade now forms the left side of the building relative to the entrance. Originally, the building had a basilica shape with three naves in Romanesque style, and its apse, which was once oriented eastward, was completely dismantled, extended, and reassembled on the south-facing side.

It seems that around the year 1000, the Pieve served a rather large area with over a hundred inhabitants. The earliest records of the Pieve are found in parchments from 947 and 949, and later in 1014, when it came under the powerful Abbey of Monteverdi.

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