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The Tizzano Hermitage was built by the Camaldolese monks between 1655 and 1741. The church, dedicated to St Benedict, features a simple and elegant Bolognese Baroque style. The interior consists of a single, tall, light-filled nave surrounded by six side chapels, connected by narrow passages and displaying fine paintings. Also worth noting are the beautiful 16th-century crucifix in olive wood and the reliquary with fragments of the True Cross and other relics bearing witness to the Passion of Christ. High up on the left side of the building stands the bell tower built in 1724 and once inhabited by the Prior. The large lawn at the back still retains the ruins of of two of the former seventeen cells for the Hermit Monks, as well as access to a secondary church, a sort of consecrated cellar, used as a refuge during the II World War.