Santuario della Beata Vergine della Consolazione di Montovolo

Montòvolo has been a place of worship since the pagan age, but today's sanctuary, dedicated to Santa Maria della Consolazione, dates back to the XIII century, when it was rebuilt on the ruins of a church donated in 1054 by the bishop Adalfredo to the canons of San Pietro di Bologna and destroyed in 1240 by the Ghibellines that sided with Frederick II of Swabia; the current building preserves part of the old building (the apses, the mullioned windows and the capitals), as well as numerous devotional frescoes from the 15th century. On the bell tower you can see a sundial still working. Near the top of the mountain, there is the Oratory of Santa Caterina di Alessandria, probably dating back to the XIII century, which preserves some fifteenth-century frescoes made by some Tuscan painters depicting Santa Caterina, a Crucifixion and a Last Judgment.