La Pieve is located in San Prospero, a hamlet along the Via Emilia east of the city of Parma. The first attestation of the presence of the church is in 980, the year in which it is mentioned in an act of the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Otto III. In 1578 the church was closed to worship because the structure was in a state of deep degradation.
The current building was rebuilt in 1743 and completed in 1779. In 1928 a violent earthquake destroyed the bell tower, which was demolished and rebuilt in 1965. The main facade has an architectural articulation with two superimposed orders, a middle cornice and a tympanum.
In the centre of the gabled facade is the main entrance; on the axis there is the lighting window of the hall and laterally a double order of red brick pilasters. The interior has a single nave surmounted by a barrel vault, side chapels and culminates in a circular apse. The cornice is supported by a series of pilasters with Doric capitals. The bell tower, made of exposed bricks, is made up of two orders, in addition to the belfry.
San Prospero
