Several Roman inscriptions have been found at the Church north of Via Emilia (1). However, there are several Roman finds in the locality mentioned since 1507 and now mostly in the Civic Museums (2). On the Rhone since 1000 there was a wooden bridge called "flat bridge or bald bridge", rebuilt towards the end of the thirteenth century and enlarged by Sigismondo Malaguzzi at the time of Ludovico Ariosto (3). As already reported in the text of "S. Lazzaro" Nironi puts forward the hypothesis that at least until the fifteenth century the Rhone flowed into the bed of today’s Rodanello and reports of a bald bridge, cited by some documents, probably west of the church of S. Lazzaro (4).The vicissitudes of the locality are partially tied to the castle of the Rhone (to which reference is made for the historical references) already existing in 1021 (5). The villa of S. Maurizio is remembered for the first time in 1126. The Estimo del Comune di Reggio of 1315 indicates the villa as a slope of the city (6). In the Estimo of 1458 there are 24 "fires" and still 835 inhabitants are indicated at the end of the eighteenth century (7). The Church of St. Maurice, probably dating back to the eleventh century, was consecrated by Bishop Adelberio between 1140 and 1149 (8). It was dependent on the Basilica of St. Prospero di Castello to which figure subject in the tithes of 1302 and 1318 (9) and later until the sixteenth century.From the beginning of the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century it is included among the free churches and without Pieve. The visit of Bishop Rangone in 1575 ordered the rebuilding of the roof. The Marliani Visit of 1663 indicates it as "antiqua et scandulata". Already in 1628 the irregular shape of the church was added and the floor renovated; in 1637, the choir is put on its face by the master Matteo Pomo and in 1641-1644 is decorated with paintings by the Cav. P. Desani. In 1771 important restoration works were carried out, with interventions by Vergnani and Gaspare Bazzani.At the end of the eighteenth century a new renovation of the building under the direction of Arch. Barlaam Vergnani who finished the work with the face in 1789. Other restorations followed in 1814, due to the serious damage suffered by the battle on the Rhone between the French and Germans and in 1832 for the injuries of the earthquake. In 1882 the walls were reinforced by the intervention of Eng. Pio Casoli, edited by the Municipality of Reggio and finally at the beginning of the twentieth century a new restoration begins, providing also to raise the bell tower (10). The Church is oriented liturgically; the facade is a hut with mirrors. In the center is a large panel with the painted image of the titular saint.A segmented attic frame runs around while the elevation is crowned at the top by three acrothers. The slender cuspidate bell tower has a double-mullioned cell. On the side of the bridge stands the building, extensively renovated, of the old mill on whose front is an epigraph dictated perhaps by prof. Bongiovanni that recalls the verses of Ariosto. On June 28, 1438, with deed of the imperial notary Antonio Catellani Ruggeri of Ferrara, Valerio Valeri Malaguzzi had obtained from Monsignor Nicolò d'Este, the concession of the right of the waters of Bazzarola, Rodano and other local springs for use of the mill of St. Maurice.The right was then reconfirmed in 1788. At the beginning of the nineteenth century was still Malaguzzi and equipped with three-wheel drive (11). The mill called "Ariosto" is registered with a press in the hydrographic map of Italy of 1888 (12). Towards Reggio, to the south of the Via Emilia is visible a nineteenth-century casino, quadrangular, on two levels, with a four-pitched roof; the regular and symmetrical lights are framed by a decorative frieze.