Abbazia di San Basilide, Romanesque abbey in San Michele Cavana, Italy.

Abbazia di San Basilide is a monastery complex featuring a Romanesque stone church with a semicircular apse and sturdy walls. The entrance displays carved capitals decorated with symbols representing the four evangelists.

Bernard degli Uberti, an advisor to Countess Matilda of Canossa, established this Vallombrosan monastery between 1096 and 1106. The foundation coincided with a wave of monastic renewal across northern and central Italy during that period.

The abbey is also called Badia Cavana, after the medieval plebs Cavanne recorded in 1230. In 1564 the church of San Basilide replaced the ruined pieve of San Pietro di San Michele Cavana as the parish church, and the archpriest was granted use of its altar. The former parish house, restored in 2016, now runs as a small bed and breakfast.

The complex is located at Strada Comunale della Badia 10 in San Michele Cavana within the Diocese of Parma. Visitors should approach as a functioning sacred space where religious practices and devotions may be taking place.

The abbey's name "Badia Cavana" comes from the medieval plebs Cavanne, recorded in 1230 when the monastery was listed as a dependency of Vallombrosa. The church was re-dedicated to San Basilide in 1564, replacing the ruined pieve of San Pietro di San Michele Cavana. The former parish house was converted into a small bed and breakfast in 2016.