Quarantoli - Pieve Santa Maria della Neve

A church in the village of Quarantoli, now part of the town Mirandola, is known already since the 9th century.

On the initiative of Matilda of Canossa (aka "Matilda of Tuscany") the red-brick-church of today was built on the foundation of the predecessing in the early 12th century. An inscription tells, that it was consecrated in November 1114.

The church survived the times, but got severely damaged in May 2012, when two major earthquakes hit Northern Italy. The epicenters of the two quakes were only 10 - 20kms away. Since then the church hidden is in scaffoldings, just to hold the structure. Renovations or rebuildings had not started in 2015.