There are few certainties and many doubts about its history. The first of all is to be able to establish where the baptismal church mentioned in 995 was located. The toponym “Mozzano” is a bit vague, because it indicates a large area that includes not only the place where our parish stands, but also some lands below. After the year 1000, the parish church remains dedicated only to St. John the Baptist, probably on the occasion of a restructuring due to the Countess Matilde di Canossa. Certainly at the time of the Countess the Pieve di Mozzano was the Pieve Vecchia di Cerreto. Always very fragile in its structure, over the centuries it required various and important restructuring interventions, problems that have reoccurred even in our times.
