The foundation of the church of Saint Stephen dates back to the beginning of the 13th century. It has a single nave and has been remodeled several times since the fire of 1501.
Among the works of greatest interest, we can admire a sixteenth-century painting decorated with Christ in pity between two angels and the symbols of Passion and a wooden crucified Christ realized by Giovanni Zeti. On the left of the entrance we can see the stucco and papier-mâché statue of Saint Lodovico from Toulouse, patron saint of the village: it would be carried in procession through the streets of the medieval village from the seventeenth century during the patron saint holiday (19th August). The sculptures of Saint Anthony Abbot and Saint Lodovico, made of glazed terracotta by the Buglioni workshop, are in two niches along the nave. The patron saint is depicted here in bishop’s robes holding a model of the village in his hand: according to tradition, in fact, Saint Lodovico saved the village besieged by the army from Lucca in 1306. He would appear on the battlements of the castle, wrapped in a luminous cloud and with a flaming sword in his hand.
The organ in the parish church belongs to Agati workshop.
Outside, the oldest gate of the village knowns as Gate of Saint Mary is on the right, between the church and the bell tower, that was part of the castle’s defensive system, perhaps an ancient watchtower. Over the centuries it had a double function, religious and military, also suggested by its strategic position which included it in the system of sighting points as a defensive outpost.
Next to the church there is the chapel of the SS. Sacrament, seat of the homonymous brotherhood founded in the 17th century. Inside there are some sacred furnishings made between the 17th and 18th centuries by some Tuscan workshops.
