Pieve San Cristoforo

Pieve San Cristoforo, Passignano's historic parish church dating to the 10th-11th centuries, is just outside the town centre. In recent years it has been returned to its former glory by an expert restoration which has renovated its frescoes, testimony to the great importance of the church in past centuries.
In the Middle Ages the pieve churches were the fulcrums of socio-economic organisation in rural areas and their influence extended from the religious to the civil spheres performing a crucial social aggregation role.

Today's visitors are welcomed on arrival by St Christopher himself in a Deruta ceramic panel dating to the 16th century above the entrance portal in which, as patron saint of the town, the saint is depicted crossing a river with Jesus the child on his shoulders in accordance with traditional representations of St Christopher.