Chiesa Madonna del Pino

Chiesa Madonna del Pino

Not far from the ancient route of the Romea and close to a vast pine forest, the Madonna del Pino has a late Romanesque style façade, enriched by a portal in Istrian stone donated in 1557 by the Community of Cervia.

The interior has a single room with exposed trusses and ending with a small apse. On the right side of the Church there is the Chapel of the Virgin, where in the past the Crucifix of Fra Girolamo was kept. Inside the Sanctuary there is a painting depicting the Madonna del Pino, which is actually a later woodcut than the original, and a painting depicting the Madonna with Child, a seventeenth-century reproduction of a Byzantine icon. The frescoes are valuable: a "San Rocco" on the right side wall and a "Madonna Enthroned with Child" on the left, both by unknown authors dating back to the early sixteenth century.

As demonstrated by the many paintings of the Virgin, the Sanctuary is dedicated to her and, according to legend, was supposed to protect the city from the disastrous seismic events that had already caused disastrous consequences since the 1400s. The Sanctuary dates back to 1445, when the Carmelite Girolamo Lambertini, attracted by the solitary and wooded place, built a brick aedicule to house a small image of the Virgin which mysteriously appeared, according to legend, on the trunk of a pine tree.

A few years later, the modest chapel was to become a real church, consecrated in 1498.