Pieve di Gaione

The Parish Church of Gaione stands on a previous Roman settlement, probably a villa. The excavations of 2000 show us this “sequence” (visible in part inside through glass in the floor): on the Roman remains arose in the early Middle Ages a place of worship, a “pre-pieve” of which remains visible a small quadrangular altar base in line with the Romanesque, made of Roman bricks of reuse. Then the Romanesque church, of which there are traces in the remains of the three apses (XI century), finally the square apse of the seventeenth century and the current one dating from the last century.

The external structure has a masonry mixed with brick and exposed river stone with a simple facade. The northern side shows part of the original masonry, the oldest one with squared ashlars of cubic shape. Inside the structure has a plan with three naves with exposed brick face and river stones in irregular courses, and three semicircular apses.

There are also various burials: some medieval burials, arranged to raggera externally around the apses (the oldest with the capuchin roofs in brick, other burials anchors are next to the perimeter walls of the aisles.

The church is dedicated to Saints Cassiano and Ippolito Martiri from the first half of the seventeenth century (initially it was dedicated only to San Cassiano). The first, a master killed in 250 by his own pupils, the second Ippolito, martyred in 258 under the emperor Valeriano with his nurse and his family.