In the small village of Moriago Giussago (PV), located about 3 km as the crow flies from the splendid Certosa di Pavia, Alto is a small medieval church, also mentioned in documents from the fourteenth century. It is situated on a small plot of land slightly raised isolated from the houses of the ancient medieval village. The church planting dates back to pre-Roman IX-X century AD C is small with a sloping roof. The property is privately owned but there is occasionally still celebrate religious functions. The gable roof covered with tiles has been restored recently, the points are made with the building technique to re-use plug-fish with brick fragments of Roman times, such as roof tiles and bricks in greater quantities sesquipedalian, diaphragm. paving earthenware, ceramics and common river pebbles, all tied with lime mortar and gray on the final Grouting, always in mortar and brick. In structure, however, you notice some changes, because the church was lengthened by about six feet by rebuilding the chancel; intervention will most likely run around the thirteenth century, the brick masonry is made of hand guard with diagonal grooves on the outer surface. At this time, probably can be attributed the frescoes that covered most of the external walls, now only visible in some fragments preserved. The final phase of building renovation was done fairly consistent with the nineteenth amendment to the original port, opening new windows, buttresses supporting the building of static along the right perimeter, attached to the back of the church was also aggunta a small barn with hayloft above. Though altered over the centuries, the ecclesiastical structure in question is probably the only one of the oldest Eastern Pavia, survived so far without heavy changes "architectural \\ aesthetics", and that deserves much attention from the institutions responsible for care and the municipal authority. The building also has never been studied stratigraphically nor was the subject of a major restoration of the building shell and fragments of fresco, which are in a poor state of preservation. Given the antiquity of the monument would be desirable for an urgent intervention of the protection and conservation of the total.
Mauro Manfrinato.
