Corte San Giorgio

Corte San Giorgio - Lentigione
Various Roman material was found in the locality. In 1099 San Giorgio with the chapel built there in memory of the same saint was donated by Countess Matilde di Canossa to the Benedictine monastery of Brescello. Around 1100 a court was built there and in 1153 a Bull of Anastasio IV reports the existence of the Church of San Giorgio and its court. Of the Church of San Giorgio we still have memory in the "Rotolo" of the Tithes of the Diocese of Parma among the employees of the Monastery of Brescello. In the Parma diocesan appraisal of 1354 it is exempt from Diocesan Jurisdiction. The possession of San Giorgio was entrusted in 1405 as a fief to the Bernieri family. In 1700 it became the property of the Cisalpine Republic which appropriated the ecclesiastical and monastic structures.
In the locality there is currently the Oratory of S. Giorgio erected in 1876 by the then owner Giuseppe Bartolo Soliani to replace the ancient church of the Matildic period with three naves he had demolished. It has a simple gabled façade bordered by pilasters and a frontispiece; the entrance is architraved with an upper lunette window. You can still admire the Romanesque bell tower, built largely with Roman material. Source Pro-Loco Brescello

Splendid courtyard on the cycle path that runs along the Enza between Sorbolo and Brescello