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The essay aims to shed some light on some Romanesque buildings preserved in the ancient parish district of Casalmaggiore, the largest one of the diocese of Cremona in medieval times. The preserved structures amount to six of which only two are known to historians of medieval architecture. In fact, Santa Maria dell'Argine in Vicobellignano and San Lorenzo in Fossacaprara are known and recently been studied buildings, but any search has ever been dedicated to Sant'Agata in Cappella, Santa Giulia in Cicognara and to the churches of St. John and St. Stephen in Casalmaggiore. In particular, in addition to formal comparisons and observations in order to propose a chronology for these structures, some hypotheses was also proposed about ecclesiastical settlements in Cicognara, originally a Longobard court, and in Casalmaggiore too.