Things to do in Emilian Po Valley

The town is located along the Via Emilia and was founded in Roman times as a 'statio' or control of the trade route and place of exchange. Every year in March, the event that involves the best master chocolatiers in Italy takes place. The stands offer a great variety of artistic... more

Nonantola Abbey was a place of capital importance in the Middle Ages. Here, in fact, the monks hosted some of the most prestigious personalities of that time, such as Matilde di Canossa. Today the abbey is a treasure trove of works of art to be visited under the guidance of... more

Brescello is a small town along the Po river famous for being the main setting for the films starring Don Camillo and the Communist Mayor Peppone. In one of those films, Don Camillo brings the statue of the 'Talking Christ' to bless the river, always at risk of overflowing. Don... more

An association was born in Malalbergo in 2011 that decided to focus its attention and concentrate its efforts on an often misunderstood and little appreciated plant: the nettle. However, not everyone knows how much nettle is rich in beneficial properties for the human body. It... more

Culatello di Zibello is much more than a simple cured meat. Its production, which has remained unchanged for over a century and still takes place today following the methodologies of tradition, is considered a cultural heritage, even more than a gastronomic one, by the... more

Castel San Pietro Terme is a town in the province of Bologna, on the border between Emilia and Romagna. Its symbolic monument is the Cassero dating back to 1199, the year the city was founded. As the name suggests, the town has been famous for its spas since ancient times and is... more

In the square we are welcomed by some students of the linguistic high school. They immediately lead us to the statue of the Renaissance philosopher Pico della Mirandola who wrote treatises on human dignity and its centrality with respect to the experimental study of natural... more

Parma is a provincial capital in Emilia Romagna. It rises 57 meters above sea level and has 180,000 inhabitants. The most representative and famous monuments of the city are certainly found in Piazza Duomo. The Cathedral is dedicated to Santa Maria Assunta, from the 12th... more

The path involves five stages. The journey begins in Gualtieri, a town in the Reggio plain, where the Bentivoglio Marquises built a small Renaissance palace. In Piazza Cavallotti, two towers face each other in the perimeter of the arches that seem endless and the eye loses... more

The human-push prototype race takes place every second Sunday in September on the occasion of the Chop Festival. It was a Castellan journalist, Medardo Manara, who proposed the Carrera in 1954 on the wave of the Pan-American one. In the post-war years he set in motion the ideas... more

Nonantola is a town in the province of Modena, known above all for its key role in resisting the Nazis of World War II. In Nonantola, and in particular at Villa Emma, several Jewish orphan boys of German origin were refugees for a medium-long period and were subsequently hidden... more

At the foot of the Apennine hills lies the town of Castel San Pietro Terme east of Bologna. Castel San Pietro Terme was born in the Middle Ages from a fortified castle guarding the great access road to Bologna which is the Via Emilia; the castle guarded the street militarily but... more

Ferrara is a city in Emilia Romagna that offers various places of interest for tourists. One of these is Piazza Ariostea with its particular oval shape. It was built in 1499 by the architect Biagio Rossetti and takes its name from Ludovico Ariosto, the author of the poem... more

Zibello is a town in the province of Parma. The morphology of the territory is typical of the lower Po valley. Numerous archaeological finds testify to the presence of Roman settlements. The history of the village begins in the medieval period with the Pallavicino family; to... more

Ferrara is an Emilian city that boasts its historic center in the Unesco World Heritage sites since 1995. Known for having been a prestigious political and social center in the period of the Este, a historic European ruling family. The first stop can only be the Estense castle,... more

We are located in Emilia, between Bologna and Modena, in a village that is a small city rich in art and culture, we are in Correggio. In this village of the lower Reggio area, which takes its name from the Lordship of Correggio, developed between 1009 and 1635, there is the... more

Cento is an Emilian town in the province of Ferrara, often referred to as 'the little Bologna' due to its similarities with the city both for the famous arcades that cross it and for numerous traditional dishes. The town structure dates back to the Middle Ages and among the most... more

We are in the lower Po Valley, in a small but very famous village and birthplace of Luciano Ligabue: Correggio. We immediately enter the town, discovering this wonderful town, walking under the arcades on the main cobbled street. There are many attractions to see: the basilica,... more

Piacenza, called 'the first-born': she bears this nickname as she was the first to vote a plebiscite for annexation to the Kingdom of Sardinia. The river Po has always accompanied the events of the place. Along its banks, at the confluence with the Trebbia, it was founded in 218... more

In the province of Modena stands one of the most authentic medieval villages in Italy. It is Savignano sul Panaro (name that derives from the river that crosses it), located in the heart of the Po Valley. Despite being a fairly populated town (about 10,000 inhabitants),... more