Chiesa di Sant’Egidio

It ‘a beautiful hexagonal chapel dedicated to Saint Egidio. This saint was a hermit and he was only just inside the cave. In the Cave, there was a water fountain made holy by the blessing of the holy hermit. People climbed up here to catch this water good to pass fevers who drank it with devotion. Now the source not drop deeper into the cave, a pastor that water used to cook his chestnuts in the pan, sacrilege and from that day the water was gone. In fact the water was gone for the work of human deforestation. Men Novele Council held in 1627 and with Massari resolve to build a chapel in honor of St. Egidio in the villa: the Bishop Sigismund Donati allows Pievano of Quintodecimo to transfer the title of the country church hermit.