Pieve de Saddi

A welcome stop for lunch!

From http://www.ilsentierodifrancesco.it:

A contraction of Pieve dei Santi, it is built in the place where, according to tradition, the martyrdom of San Crescentino takes place, a Roman soldier of the fourth century, beheaded under the emperor Diocletian for having embraced the Christian religion.
Erected on the remains of a pre-existing pagan temple, the church has Romanesque forms and therefore dates back to the second half of the eleventh century. With a beautiful bell gable, it is divided into three naves and is closed at the back by a polygonal apse; On the walls, among the plasters, it is possible to glimpse traces of an ancient pictorial decoration. The crypt, below the building, housed the remains of San Crescentino, then transferred to Urbino. A limestone bas-relief on the left wall shows the Saint in the act of killing a dragon.
A ninth-century tower without battlements, with a typically defensive structure, closes the building at the front.Read more