Santa Maria del Piratello, Minor basilica in Piratello, Imola, Italy.

Santa Maria del Piratello is a rectangular church with a small portico over its portal, built about 3 km west of Imola on the Via Emilia. Domenico and Zilio della Lobia da Lugano built it, and its bell tower was designed by Bramante shortly after 1500. Inside are two transverse naves with 19th-century decoration and, at the centre of the tribune, a 15th-century fresco of the Madonna.

In 1483 the pilgrim Stefano Mangelli reported a Marian apparition at a roadside image shaded by a pear tree (piradèl in Romagnolo), 3 km west of Imola. In 1489 Caterina Sforza obtained papal permission to build a church and convent, consecrated on 27 March 1492; the nave was enlarged between 1532 and 1540. Pius XII raised it to minor basilica on 8 December 1954.

The name Piratello comes from the Romagnol piradèl, the small pear tree that shaded the shrine's image in 1483. Since 4 February 1617 Imola's council authorised the image's yearly entry into the cathedral, carried by the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament; in 1714 it received a golden crown. The friars keep a museum with two relics of Blessed Geremia Lambertenghi: his bed of 189 nails and his penitential instruments.

The sanctuary stands on the Via Emilia about 3 km west of Imola, next to the Piratello cemetery that grew out of the friars' cloister in 1821. The church is reached from the Via Emilia; the lime-tree avenue in front of it was planted at the wish of Pius IX in the 1850s.

The church keeps two relics of Blessed Geremia Lambertenghi, founder and first superior of the convent: his bed, made of 189 nails, and a reliquary holding the main instruments of penance he used during his years there. He died on 25 March 1513.