Parish church of San Siro
MONTALE DI LEVANTO
HISTORY
The parish, a baptismal church, but also a real unitary ecclesiastical institute, including the people of the faithful around the mother church, also including the whole territory in which the people were stationed. It is an original organizational form, spontaneously self-determined within the framework of the transition of structures from the classical-pagan world to the needs of a new cult that was seeking its own original settlement.
THE PIEVE AS A BAPTISMAL SOURCE
The parish as a baptismal church, matrix of the minor churches or chapels, in the large districts where it was located, possessed its own patrimony and its plural clergy at the top of which was the parish priest or archpriest.
CEULA - LEVANTO
The archpriest of Ceula was elected directly by the pope and, still in the 16th century, was the body with the highest income in the diocese. Its importance was remarkable, so much so that in the Middle Ages a large part of the large Levanto amphitheater was called Valle di Ceula
THE CHURCH
The oldest and most refined part of the current building dates back to the 11th century, the three apses were demolished and lengthened in the 15th century; there were still subsequent alterations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with the addition of the choir first and then the facade.
THE ARTS OF THE PIEVE
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