The church of San Mauro was certainly the first Pieve di Pinetana. Today it is presented in Gothic-Renaissance style
Already mentioned in a document of 1242, it was certainly the first Pieve Pinetana, where the most important liturgical functions for the community were celebrated. Today it is in Gothic-Renaissance style with a simple façade, an elegant three-span entrance adorned with four columns of red stone and the Romanesque bell tower, the only evidence of the first church.
The church stands on the hill above the town of San Mauro, at an altitude of 806 metres, facing east in a panoramic position.
Inside it preserves a valuable Baroque wooden altar, a famous Gothic triptych of carved and gilded wood, two sixteenth-century altarpieces by Paolo Naurizio, a seventeenth-century altarpiece by Carlo Pozzi and several interesting sixteenth-century frescoes.
STRENGTH
The sober but elegant architecture and the panoramic position on the valley.
