The church of St. James is the only building, obviously different from how we know it today, that survived the ruin of the villages in our area. In the medieval period, the news goes back to the middle of the fourteenth century. In fact, we know that the presbytery Bonanato was rector “ecclesie ville Solemini.” The church appears to exist in 1637 in the document of taking possession of the fief, when the village was still depopulated. The village was refounded in 1673, and marriages and other sacraments are immediately reported to have been celebrated. In the accounts of pious causes from the end of the seventeenth century there are several expenditures for work on the parish church. In the years 1701/1705 are documented expenses to enlarge the now too small and unsuitable church. In fact in 1705, exactly on June 23, the new temple was blessed. Thus several construction phases can be assumed: the first concerns the nave with pointed arches in the late Gothic style, covered with trusses, which should have risen on a pre-existing Romanesque structure, a theory supported by the presence of the side porch representative of that period. Later the buttresses, the barrel-vaulted space of the presbytery and the sacristy were built. For the bell tower, construction in the mid-eighteenth century is assumed. Numerous restorations are then documented in later times.
