Parco Regionale Abbazia di Monteveglio

The church, as the columns of its crypt suggest, is one of the most ancient rural churches in the diocese of Bologna. In the middle of the 12th century, after a first hermitage, the Canons Regular of St. Fridianus from Lucca started to rebuild the structure according to the current Romanesque style.
After a decline period Santa Maria became flourishing again in 1456 thanks to the Canons Regular of the Lateran, who carried out several restoration and expansion works.