Chiesa dell'Assunzione di Maria

Also known as the sanctuary of Santa Maria Assunta or the sanctuary of the Madonna di Bresimo, it appears explicitly in documents from 1324. Between 1335 and 1338, by decision of the noble Altaguardia family, the original building was rebuilt according to the taste of the time and consecrated immediately afterwards; in the second half of the fifteenth century the bell tower and the new sacristy were added.

The form we see today, however, dates from the sixteenth century, when the choir gallery was built on the commission of Filippa D'Arco and Baldassarre Thun and the whole building was remodelled. The most notable feature of the sanctuary dates from then: the walls of the nave were covered with a cycle of frescoes inspired by the Small Passion of Albrecht Dürer. The new altars, in inlaid and polychrome wood, were consecrated in 1538 by Vincenzo Negusanti, and in 1550 the church was granted the status of a curacy and the baptismal font.

In the eighteenth century a porch was added to the main façade, later demolished, and the bell tower, damaged by bad weather, was restored. In the nineteenth century a coat of whitewash ruined the frescoes, which were recovered and brought back to light only around the middle of the following century, during a wider restoration.