Querciola Castle and Church of Santa Maria Assunta

Querciola Castle with the church dedicated to Santa Maria Assunta is an ancient village in the Reggio Apennines in the municipality of Viano. It was a fiefdom for about five centuries, excluding a short period, of an ancient noble Reggio family: the Fogliani. The investiture took place on 23 August 1233 and for some years it has been remembered with a village festival which generally takes place in the last weekend of August. A walk in the village of Castello Querciola will allow you to admire the fourteenth-century church, the stone houses of the time and a visit to the interior of the recently restored rectory with the opportunity to admire the friezes by Lelio Orsi, a painter of the sixteenth century originally from Novellara (RE). Under the rectory it is also possible to visit an ancient oratory dedicated to the Madonna del Rosario with a fresco on the wall, circa 1500, of the Madonna with Child and saints.