La chiesa di San Leonardo.

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It was the first seat of the Charity School, later converted into a coal depot by Napoleonic decrees, and today is a multipurpose hall of the Municipality (called Sala San Leonardo).

You come across Strada Nova - from the train station towards Campo dei Santi Apostoli -, on the right shortly after crossing the Ponte delle Guglie, in the Campo of the same name. To see it you have to pay attention, since its view is "obstructed" by the row of fruit and vegetable stalls that are present in that stretch of road.

The church was built in the early 11th century by the will of the Crituazio family (as confirmed by a historical document dated 1089).

After being consecrated for the first time, in the fourteenth century it underwent a restructuring that

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