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THE  PIEVE

 

The “Pieve”  plays the role of  the cathedral in small rural places. It has  control over a dozen of parishes.

The largest pieve in eastern Brianza was Missaglia. The first Christians who lived here built S. Giovanni Battista Baptistry,  about which we only know it was near the Basilica.

The parish of Missaglia was “pieve”  up to the beginning of the 19th century.