Chiesa di San Baronto, Medieval church in San Baronto, Lamporecchio, Italy.

The Chiesa di San Baronto is a medieval church featuring a single nave with wooden roof trusses and two lateral chapels in San Baronto. Below the nave lies a pre-Romanesque crypt whose small columns are topped with capitals from the 9th century.

The church began as an oratory above Saint Baronto's tomb in the 7th century and was rebuilt during the 11th century. Destruction during World War II prompted a later reconstruction that restored the medieval structure.

The name of the place comes from Baronto, a monk of the French abbey of Reghereto who lived here as a hermit in the 7th century. Inside the rebuilt church hangs a canvas dated 1603 and signed by the Pistoian "Tarquinius Gatius", showing the Madonna enthroned with Saints Paul and Baronto.

The church is located at Piazza Fra Giuseppino Giraldi 1 in San Baronto and welcomes visitors with free entry. The crypt below offers exploration of the foundational spaces where sturdy shoes are helpful when descending.

The crypt survived the World War II bombing that destroyed the church above it, since the bell tower was being used as an observation post over the valleys. Its five small naves end in three apses, and traces of 14th- and 15th-century frescoes remain on its walls.