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The oldest mention of the church dedicated to St Martin of Tours dates back to the 13th century, to 3 September 1235 to be precise, when it is mentioned in a notarial deed as the place where the deed was signed. Of the forms and volumes of the medieval church today only the bell tower remains, having been heavily remodeled over the centuries, especially with the reconstructive intervention of the early 1600s, which completely replaced the medieval forms with the current ones. This construction site is also exceptionally well documented by a whole series of deeds generated by the multiple difficulties created by it, not least the static ones caused to the surrounding houses. It was therefore during this period that the Church of St Martin took on its present form. In describing the exterior, it is worth drawing attention to the wrought iron bar, the official measure in Genoese palms, affixed to the side of the building and dating from the beginning of the 17th century. The interior is full of fine works of art. Certainly we should remember the Chapel of the Assumption, richly decorated with polychrome marble and eighteenth-century stuccoes, in which the statue of the "Madonna delle Vigne" (Our Lady of the Vineyards) stands out, sculpted by an anonymous author in the early seventeenth century; the wooden choir with the double order of stalls located behind the central altar; the valuable altarpiece of the Madonna del Rosario, also by an unknown artist but made a hundred years before the completion of the work on this sacred building. In fact, the altarpiece comes from another Dominican church in Braida. The full name of the already mentioned "Chapel of the Assumption" is the "Chapel of the Opera Pia of Our Lady of the Assumption", and refers to the important local confraternity, recognised by Leo X in 1513 but, apparently, reading the Pope's bull, already operating for three hundred years.

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