Pieve of Santa Maria Genitrix
Pieve of Santa Maria Genitrix in Medole appears in a document dated 1020 and was part of the diocese of Brescia to the beginning of the eighteenth century, along with those of Guidizzolo and of Castiglione, then it passed to that of Mantua.
Pieve of Santa Maria Genitrix: in this area, in the eleventh or twelfth century there were more centers of worship and other church communities: in 1087 the Bishop of Brescia Arimanno from Gavardo granted by the Church of San Vito di Medole abbot of the monastery of San Benedetto Po in Montirone (Mantua); in 1090, Uberto son of Arduino Count of Parma donated curtis and castrum then present in Medole to the monastery of Cluny; Arduino time before donated the chapel of San Giusto always to the monastery of San Benedetto, chapel of San Dalmazio to the monastery of San Prospero in Reggio Emilia and a plot of land to Maguzzano Abbey. In 1122 the relationship between the settlement of the monastery of San Benedetto and the pieve of Santa Maria were not peaceful, as they came to enter into a conventio in which the Bishop of Brescia Villano, with Lanzo the archpriest of the pieve of Santa Maria in Medole , promised to not move lawsuit to the monastery of San Benedetto for the church of San Vito and goods relevant to the church of San Giusto, in exchange they had the control of the church of San Vito .
The pieve of Santa Maria Genitrix is outside the settlement, has a rectangular plan with a single nave and semicircular apse; the outside, which was intended to be plastered, was remodeled in times but retains its original Romanesque appearance, in the apse there are stone pilasters and on the side walls, under the eaves, there is a series of small terracotta arches. Inside are the frescoes in the apse dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
informations freely taken from Romanesque Garda Renata Salvarani.