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To see the interior of the church, make an appointment with the Parish of Crespellano, tel. +39051964136

Starting from here means getting a 360° panoramic view of Crespellano, its hillsides and fertile plains, with the chance of also visiting the church of Santa Maria Nascente, of which documented evidence exists dating back as far as 1148. After 1461 the ius patronato passed to the Aldrovandis, and was entrusted directly to the parishoners in the late 1800s. The building, whose interior makes it one of the most beautiful of our territory, is composed of a single nave with side chapels. The church has preserved an altarpiece depicting Saints Augustine and Monica, painted by Gaetano Gandolfi in 177, while the main altar displays a canvas by Ercole Graziani (1688-1765) depicting the Birth of the Virgin Mary. The hamlet also hosts an oratory dedicated to the Holy Spirit and an incompleted bell tower which was begun in 1933 to provide the complex with one larger than that currently in function. The bell tower, as we can see in an ancient painting hanging in the sacristy, had a pyramidal tent roof at the end of the 17th century, a result of its reconstruction in 1673. In the centuries that followed, it was damaged and reconstructed many times. Struck by lightning in 1788, it was then given an octogonal spire. This was also damaged by lightning in 1842 and rebuilt two years later “to resemble how it was before 1788\". The panorama is breathtaking in its entirety.