Eremo di San Biagio

Church and hospice first mentioned in 1307, perhaps thirteenth-century. What exactly the adjoining structure was used for is not clear, and the doubt is one that says a great deal: according to Vigilio Inama it was a hospice for travellers and pilgrims, according to don Rosati a leper hospital, because from 1349 the place appears in the documents as the hill and church of San Lazzaro, who is the patron saint of lepers.

The number of people living there can be read in the records like a parabola: in the mid-thirteenth century the hospice is run by four friars and two nuns, in 1307 three women remain, around 1350 only two men.

Little remains of the original construction, because it has been altered many times: the oldest part is the Romanesque side chapel, while the church proper dates from the fifteenth century.