Eremo di Tizzano, Baroque church in Casalecchio di Reno, Italy.
The Eremo di Tizzano is a baroque church in Casalecchio di Reno featuring a single luminous nave with six side chapels connected by narrow passages. The chapel walls display notable paintings that decorate the interior.
Construction of the monastery began in 1655 under Camaldolese monks and concluded with its consecration to Saint Benedict in 1741. This extended building period shaped the site's development across generations.
The parish celebrates its crucifix on 3 May, with particular solemnity when the date falls on a Friday. The wooden crucifix in the second chapel on the left, dating from the second half of the 16th century, has a reliquary at its base that tradition holds contains fragments of the True Cross and other relics.
The church is temporarily closed for structural checks and consolidation work, so the interior cannot be visited. The hilltop at 243 m is reached on foot from Tizzano, a hamlet of 14 inhabitants in Casalecchio di Reno. From the churchyard the view takes in the Reno valley, the Sanctuary of San Luca and, on clear days, Monte Mario and Badolo.
The bell tower, built in 1724, once housed the prior. Behind the church, in the large lawn, remain the traces of two of the original seventeen cells of the Camaldolese hermits; from there a small consecrated cellar-chapel is reached, used as a shelter during the Second World War.
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