Churches and shrines

This church, located in the village of Santa Maria in Fabriago, is one of the oldest of the diocese and is dedicated to the nativity of Virgin Mary; formerly, it used to be a parish church.

S. Pietro in Sylvis parish church, dating back to the VII century, is one of the best preserved churches in the territory and represents a typical example of exarchal architecture.

In Barbiano, four kilometres from Cotignola, the old Pieve (rural church) emerges as a balanced Romanesque construction built in the 10th century. The old structure was added at the back of the S. Stefano Protomartire Church by Cosimo Morelli.

The oratory dates back to the fist half of the XV century and draws this name from toponyms concerning the street and hydrological structure of the area where it was built.

On the front side of the church of San Francesco, the Sforza chapel is connected to the main building with a nice arcade.

The church, built in Gothic Roman style, was built in the decade 1484-1494 following the Papal bull dated June the 6th 1484. The consecration is dated 1495.

The church was built in 1686 as private oratory of Fiaschi Marquis from Ferrara. It was finished in 1689 and dedicated to the Immaculate Conception. Around the middle of the XIX century the bell tower, with its characteristic bulb dome, was addeded.

The Sanctuary was built between 1794 and 1813 under the supervision of the architect Zaccaria Facchini. Beside it, you find the municipal cemetery.

This oratory was built in the village of Passogatto in the beginning of the XVIII century and it was dedicated to a tiny image of the Madonna from Loreto, which have been found in 1957 soon after the closing of the church due to restoration works.

This oratory dedicated to St. Dorothea has been founded here in Belricetto in the beginning of the XVIII century. It’s a single nave church, whose ceiling is embellished with two paintings on wood which depict the Saint Anthony from Padua while adoring the Child and St. Joseph. During restoration works, carried out in 1967, it was founded a small painting portraying the face of S. Agnes, which can be seen in the middle of the apse.