Pieve di Crespiano – Comano
The diocese of Luni had in this territory the parish church of Crespiano, restored several times, with a beautiful rectory house attached and an important bell tower, dating from the sec. XI. On the second floor of this tower-according to a usage of the time-a small room was intended to house a chapel, of which the small apse with its single-lancet window remains. It was probably at the time of the bell tower's construction that an important and very rare epigraph dated 1079, now kept in the sacristy, dates back. Documents of this kind are very rare; the plaque was originally on the outside and was intended to remind posterity of the great undertaking of the restoration and perhaps the construction of the bell tower, but also - proudly - the name of its author: "In the year of the Incarnation of the Lord 1079, when this church was restored, Master Oto made me."
Taken from "Lunigiana Quality 2007," text by Riccardo Boggi
(Photo by Davide Papalini
