San Donato Park and San Donato Temple

San Donato Park is equipped with play equipment, picnic tables and benches, a drinking fountain and a scenic path along which some structures for outdoor free body sports activities are installed.The “Tempietto di San Donato” welcomes you, originally an oratory annexed to the Church of Santa Maria di Vignola, now a small temple dedicated to peace, frescoed by Giancarlo Balzani as a tribute to Sogliano and Picasso.Inside the park there are 2 structures reproduced based on drawings made by Leonardo Da Vinci called “concavities”, instruments used by the shepherds of Romagna in the sixteenth century to amplify the power of their horn and communicate better.Visitors have the opportunity to interact and activate the acoustic propagation of traditional sounds similar to those emitted by the shepherds’ horns.A box with books for free exchange has recently been installed in compliance with the lending project (Little Free Library project). In the highest part of the park, the “Yew” by G. Pascoli was planted on the initiative of the Sogliano Elementary Schools. The area has a parking lot.(Source: visitsoglianoalrubicone.it/scopri-sogliano/cuorenatura/parco-s-donato-e-concavita-di-leonardo-da-vinci )

Originally it was an oratory attached to the Church of Santa Maria di Vignola also used as a burial place. This recently renovated temple is dedicated to peace, as it stands on the site of a bloody battle of the Second World War, between the Germans and the English.(Source: visitsoglianoalrubicone.it/scopri-sogliano/artecultura/chiese-abbazie-pievi-e-monasteri/tempietto-di-san-donato-vignola )