According to Tiraboschi Gazzata is mentioned in papers dated 1063 and 1092. It possessed a strong castle, which must have been built in the locality of S. Pellegrino - the Bertolani reports the locality known as l'Alzata. The Mutes, also known as della Gazzata, were Lords. In 1349 Giberto Fogliani occupied and destroyed the castle remaining masters of the locality until 1368 when the Roberti da Tripoli family was invested (2). The first news of the Church of S. Maria della Gazzata is a sentence of the year 1218. In the tithes of 1318 a figure dependent on the Monastery of S. Prospero in Reggio. At the end of the 16th century it was connected to the Collegiate Church of S. Martino in Rio. In the second half of the fourteenth century the Church threatened to ruin; bad conditions are also recorded in the 16th and 18th centuries. It was rebuilt in the mid-eighteenth century and blessed in 1764. The façade faces west, divided into three parts with a slender central part, framed by two pilasters with a frame connecting the side wings and completed by a triangular frontispiece cusped at the top. The high architraved portal is surmounted by a central light. Note the octagonal drum with upper lantern; the Church is in Doric order and has the shape of a Greek cross. The tower was reduced to its present form in 1888 (3). Along the via Fossa Drowned there is a notable rural building with juxtaposed bodies in line with a lowered dead door and a hut roof with firebreak ridge. The civil, to the west, has the two floors with symmetrically distributed regular lights. A couple of buildings with a rectangular plan on one level with a two-pitched roof and an attic front crown used for service activities are worth noting.