The place can be reached by car
Located 4 km north-east from Savignano and is mentioned for the first time in 1070 in a certificate from the bishop of Rimini in which this parish is assigned to its canons. The parish church had its origins, as mentioned around 1000, from a small church dedicated to the archangel Michael and built by the Lombards of Queen Theodolinda who converted to Christianity. In a brief papal in 1136 the parish was confirmed subject to the canons of Rimini. In the year 1290, we find an archpriest of the parish, Don Filippo, who pays tithes to the church of Rimini. After 1300 and for two centuries, the parish is no longer remembered. Later due to the interest of the local population, the counts of Bagno try to restore it; so that in 1372 we find a papal bull, which remembers the parish church of Sant’Angelo. In 1763 the new church will be enlarged and equipped with three altars. In 1777 with Pio VI’s bull of 11 July, the parish passed to the diocese of Cesena. In 1780 it was equipped with a baptismal font. In 1790 a modern-style bell tower was built with two bells. In 1822 the painter from Gatteo, Don Stefano Montanari, painted a picture for the church representing Saint Michele with Saint Lucia and Saint Biagio. This was destroyed during the last war. In 1844 the parish was “lengthened and raised”. In 1944 German troops undermined the bell tower; the church, except for the façade, collapsed together with the rectory. In 1947 it was rebuilt in neo-classical style following a project by the architect Gualandi of Bologna; it was rebuilt in 1969.
A plaque placed inside recalls the vicissitudes to which it was subject: “this house dedicated to Saint Michele the Archangel before the 10th century, founded by the archbishop of Ravenna, destroyed by a terrible war of peoples, the foundations rebuilt, with a solemn rite from ‘Archbishop Gian Franceschi on October 28, 1969 “. In the apse there is a painting of san Michele Arcangelo by Morigi.
