Pieve di San Giorgio
Prices
Access with guided tour:
Full price € 6,00
Reduced € 4,00
(only with reservation for groups over 5 people)
Free access to the park and external visit of the building without guided tour.
The Pieve was founded in 569 by Agnellus, the Archbishop of Ravenna. The first inhabited centre of Argenta was built around this building.
It originally had three aisles, but today it has a single room with a gabled roof and a small bell tower. The rest of the side aisles have been progressively submerged by floods and debris.
Prominent on the facade of this tiny church, nestling in verdant meadows, is a marble portal dating from 1122, surmounted by a lunette containing a carved Martyrdom of St. George. To its sides there are the allegorical representations of the traditional activities occurring in each month of the year.
Inside are traces of mosaic paving from the 12th century and a marble altar in Byzantine style. There are copies of the mosaics and archeological remains in the Valli di Argenta Museum, the originals are preserved in the Argenta Civic Museum and the Archiepiscopal Museum of Ravenna.
