Abbatial Church of the Silvestrini

On the abbatial Church of the Silvestrini, of Benedictine observance, perhaps built in 1200, the date of foundation is engraved in Gothic characters: 1337. In this century the Sunday market began (CXXXXVIII section of the Medieval Statutes of Fossato: "... iuxta et ante ecclesiam sancti benedecti "), to which at least one member of each family of the castle is obliged to participate" cum aliqua re vel mercantia ", testimony of the overcoming of the economic curtense and also of the centrality of the castle of Fossato. The merchants were housed in the hospitable trivii de strata, which stood a few meters away. The façade is also important in terms of its artistic features, which is also beautiful because it is characterized by the simple rose window, the two ogival portals, the trilobated lancet window and the bell tower that divides the church from the living area. central round, the two side chapels and the remaining three-quattrocententeschi frescoes.