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The Top 20 Natural Monuments in Modena

Modena’s landscape is a beautiful place to explore — something that you can best experience by visiting one of our 20

beautiful natural monuments in Modena. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!

Last updated: October 1, 2025

Lake Scaffaiolo

One of the best known and most visited lakes in the entire Emilian Apennines, the Scaffaiolo is even mentioned by Boccaccio in the treatise “De Montibus” of 1373. It is …

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Highest peak of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines.

Too bad for the significant anthropization of the summit due to the weather station and the military base below.

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The legend tells of the love story between the shepherd Titiro and the noble lady Odina. The two, despite the opposition of her family, manage to escape together. With the …

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Top of Monte Rotondo; one of the two peaks of the so-called "Open Book" which also includes Mount Belvedere.

Useful passage if you want to enjoy a beautiful view but …

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The summit of the pagan Giovo is reflected on the holy surface of the lake

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The top of Mount Spigolino is truly panoramic: the view sweeps 360 ° without any obstacles.

And then there are numerous truly touching epitaphs.

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From this point you can admire a geological process that began a few millennia ago: cold clayey mud mixed with hydrocarbons rises from the subsoil, which, drying up, builds up to a few meters high volcanic-looking cones.

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The Duca degli Abruzzi refuge was the first alpine refuge built on the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, more precisely on the shores of Lake Scaffaiolo.

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The Pink Grotto is the only equipped passage on the stretch of the ridge between Monte Rondinaio and Monte Giovo.

Athletic stretch to be addressed carefully and if possible uphill. …

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For centuries the God of the Mountain has been trying to make the stoic hero of the plant world yield, trying with his impassivity and friability to make the tenacious …

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