Church of San Lorenzo

In 1346, at the behest of Bernardo Martinozzi, abbot of the monastery of San Paterniano, the parish church dedicated to San Lorenzo Martire was built inside the Castle of Cerasa. This building was welcomed with great festivity by the population, who could thus see the residence of their parish priest and pastor on the site. The Church, after having withstood the ravages of time for many years, collapsed completely to the ground but, with perfect symmetry, was promptly rebuilt at the behest of another Martinozzi by the name of Paolo, also an abbot of the monastery of Fano. The rebuilding work was carried out under the direction of Cav, Francesco Bonamici, an architect from Rimini. The renovated church, which preserves a stone baptismal font dating back to 1629 and a beautiful 18th-century organ by the famous Gaetano Callido, has a plaque on the main façade bearing an inscription in Gothic characters recalling the primitive construction.