San Biagio, Maranello
San Biagio is Roman Catholic parish church located at Via Nazionale #37 in the town of Maranello, near Sassuolo, in the region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
History[]
A church at the site is recalled in documents from 1375 from the . To erect the church, some of the walls of the local castle were used, and the entrance formerly required entry through an ancient gate of the castle with a drawbridge.[1] The church has presently a Gothic revival-style facade with roofline spires, and was built between 1894 and 1903. The Belltower was built over the next decade.[2]
References[]
- ^ La patria; geografia dell' Italia: Provincie di Modena e Reggio nell'Emilia, by Gustavo Chiesi, with Gustavo Strafforello, editor, Turin (1902) , page 147.
- ^ Maranello website, entry on church.
Categories:
- 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
- Churches in the province of Modena
- Roman Catholic churches completed in 1903
- Gothic Revival church buildings in Italy