San Gennaro, Capannori, Romanesque pieve in San Gennaro, Capannori, Italy

San Gennaro is a Romanesque church in the hamlet of the same name in Capannori, with three naves and three apses, of which only the left one survives. The facade mixes later rebuilding with original cubic capitals at the portal and a small loggia on the upper order. Along the north flank runs a band of hanging arches on carved corbels, echoed on the apse corbels and on two capitals in the counter-facade.

The church is documented from 980, and the present three-nave layout dates to the 12th century. The marble pulpit was carved in 1162, and the bell tower was rebuilt in 1840. The facade portal keeps part of its original Romanesque sculpture.

The church is a pieve, a baptismal church serving a rural district, dedicated to Saint Gennaro. Its name appears in the locality of San Gennaro in Capannori. The 1162 marble pulpit and the carved capitals remain the focus of local devotion and visits.

The pieve stands in the hamlet of San Gennaro, in the municipality of Capannori, and is an active place of worship, so visits should avoid Mass times. The bell tower rebuilt in 1840 and the surviving left apse help orient visitors approaching from the surrounding countryside.

Inside is a terracotta Archangel Gabriel attributed by Carlo Pedretti, a professor at the University of California and director of the Hammer Center for Leonardo studies, to Leonardo da Vinci. After restoration at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence in 2019, it was shown as dubitatively by Leonardo, more safely linked to Andrea del Verrocchio's workshop. Pedretti noted Leonardo may have stayed at San Gennaro while studying Arno canalization; the church and landscape appear on his hydraulic map.