Chiesa di Santa Maria della Pieve

History & Culture

Novi Ligure

Sacred Sites

piazzale Pieve, 2 - 15067 Novi Ligure (AL)
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This church was built between the 12th and the 13th centuries, at the origins of the settlement that led to the birth of the village. Extensively reconstructed in 1678, it preserves the original layout with three naves, and in particular the wall texture of the three apses in brick and white sandstone. Inside, the left-hand apse has a fresco of considerable importance dated 1474 by Manfredino Boxilio. It depicts Oriana di Campofregoso, a noble lady from Novi who commissioned the work, St. Anne holding the Virgin Mary with Child, St. John the Baptist and St. Margaret.