Beautiful chapel church dedicated to the Madonna dei baler, a dialect term that indicates chestnuts cooked in water; the dedication, which took place around 1830, was desired by the inhabitants of Riviano who survived a serious famine by feeding on the chestnuts of the area; the environment houses a nineteenth-century wooden statue depicting the Madonna dei baler. SOURCE parmense.net/2020/06/04/meraviglioso-appennino-la-chiesa-di-riviano-in-val-ceno

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Beautiful church located in a fantastic setting surrounded by centuries-old oak trees.

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