Pieve Santo Stefano is a small village in High Tevere Valley in Tuscany at the borderline with Romagna area by that road known as E45, the interregional road that link Orte (Roma) and Ravenna.
Nowadays Pieve Santo Stefano is known for preserving and give importance to the several memories of common people such as diaries.
For 25 years an Award Prize has been celebrated cared by the Diary Archive that seem to have inspired even the movie director Nanni Moretti.
Pieve Santo Stefano can be reached by that long roadpreviously mentioned, long before the creation of A1 and a14 highway, But nowadays it is out of the main communication ways but every year it welcomes many tourist and lovers of literature and diaries and history.
The Diary Archive above all is the strength of Pieve and even when there is not the Prize day many people attend the library and read the memories.
But Pieve Santo Stefano, for its central position that many historical population of the past wanted since Etruscan to Roman, is proud of a millenary history that includes even pre-history.
A few km far from Pieve Santo Stefano the tevere River gushes out and exactly from Fumaiolo mountain in Romagna land and on the Caentino Side of Laverna, exactly in Falterona Mountain another important River, the Arno gushes out as well.
Since Agricultura has been mechanized the Chianina cow breed, always used for working in the fields, has been recovered and "welcomed" for a long tim in the green pastures of this side of Tevere Valley and nowadays it comes back on the tables as a prelibate meal, the pride of Arezzo Province.
In Pieve Santo Stefano you have to visit the  Madonna dei Lumi Sanctuary
Madonna dei Lumi is a sanctuary voted to Mary. Its a sacred building that lays along the homonimous way in PIeve Santo Stefano.
It was built up between 1590 and 1625 by the Architect Pietro Cecini to honour an image of Madonna whose fresco was in a box and it is told to have been visited every night by several lighthing angels.
In 1612 the image is placed over the main altar.
Inside that 4 great Doric columns, along with other half columns hold a great cupola frescoed by Luigi Ademollo (XIX secolo).
The architectural model with a central plant rmeind of the type of religious buildings of late '500 wanted by Medici Government. Many pictures dated of 1600 by Francesco Curradi (Santi) and Agostino Ciampelli (Madonna with her Child and Saints).
The Collegiata of Saint Stephan is a building placed in the homonimous square in Pieve Santo Stefano. That's the church that gives name to the village.
The ancient parish church dedicated to Santo Stefano is already reminded in a Pope document dated of 1212-1227.
Ever since 13th century it was organized as Collegiata since the priests lived there praying and having mercy.
SInce its origins to 1520 it was part of the Diocese of Città di Castello; in 1520 it passed under the diocese of Sansepolcro.
The actual parish church with a neoclassical style was built up replacing the old one between 1844 and 1881 and its façade is formed in part by the back wall of the ancient building.
In 1880 the ancient bell tower was destroyed and in 1906 the church becomes sacred.
The plant with a Latin cross shape is enriched by 16 altars and preserves a wonderful masterpiece by Andrea della Robbia representing the Assumption and the Saints (1514).
Other historical places are the Eremo di Cerbaiolo, Eremo della Madonna del Faggio, Sant'Andrea della Torre Church, temple of Santa Maria del Colledestro, Santa Maria della Pace Church.