Chiesa di San Secondo, Romanesque church in Cortazzone, Italy.

The chiesa di San Secondo has a neo-Romanesque facade facing southeast, with a central portal framed by a two-tone lunette, rows of small loggias holding statues, a rose window and hanging arches under the slopes. A square bell tower with five windows per side and a pyramidal spire stands beside it. Inside is a single nave of five bays with ten side chapels under round arches, lesenes and a barrel vault, ending in a presbytery raised four steps.

The original church of Cortazzone was probably built in the early 16th century. When the village was rebuilt near the castle, the oratory then dedicated to Saint Syrus took over the parish role from the old church of San Secondo di Mongiglietto and was consecrated on 27 September 1600 by Bishop Giovanni Stefano Aiazza. Chapels financed by the Pelletta family were finished by 1627; the presbytery was rebuilt between 1742 and 1749, and in 1903-1905 the nave was lengthened by one bay behind a new neo-Gothic facade.

The church was long dedicated to Saint Syrus and only in the 1740s was it also titled to Saints Syrus and Secondo, before returning to San Secondo alone. The chapels of Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Charles Borromeo were paid for by the Pelletta family and finished by 1627.

The church faces southeast, with the neo-Gothic facade and tall bell tower set beside a wide forecourt created in 1903-1905 by demolishing the old rectory. The bell tower, damaged by the 21 August 2000 earthquake, was consolidated and its top restored over the following three years. The interior is a single nave of five bays with ten side chapels.

The 1903-1905 renovation by engineers Arnaldo Riccio and Giuseppe Velati Bellini demolished the old canonica in front of the church, lengthened the nave by one bay and raised the neo-Gothic facade with its tall bell tower and wide sagrato. The bell tower was structurally consolidated and its top restored after the 21 August 2000 earthquake damaged it.