ポンテデッロリオの天然記念物・トップ13

enchanting place on a splendid panorama, there are on the crest of the rock some tanks with newts, unique animals

This side of the hill is characterized by a rapid change in terrain type at every step, you go from the tree-lined path, to the classic path and suddenly you turn the curve and you find yourself overlooking the gullies. They almost look like sand dunes but in the end they are clay rocks eroded by water. The peculiarity is that some are completely almost devoid of vegetation and immediately after you find them covered.

The oratory is beautiful

The cross is cute

Piplon, a foolish devil, one day fell in love with a beautiful girl named Gesandra, but the young girl would not have anything to do with him. To deceive her, therefore, he disguised himself as a knight and sought the collaboration of Brother Gesualdo, a local religious man, to intercede for him. But the friar did not let himself be ensnared and deceived him in turn. He told him to come back in a week and carved a rock in his own likeness; Once the devil returned, Brother Gesualdo convinced him that the girl would marry him only if he waited for her, immobile, in that place for seven years, seven months and seven days and offered to stay with him while waiting. Months passed and then years and Piplon fell asleep, carelessly letting the sand carried by the wind cover him and transform him into the rock that can still be seen today on the road to Castellana, in the municipality of Gropparello.

the monument to the partisans of Passo dei Guselli was inaugurated in 1984 by Nilde Iotti, the first woman president of the Chamber of Deputies.

One of the most tragic and mournful events that affected the Resistance in the Val d'Arda was certainly the massacre at the Guselli Pass, by German troops and the soldiers of the National Republican Guard. The events began on the morning of 4 December 1944, when the Guselli area of Morfasso was reached by a column of Nazi soldiers, in particular belonging to the Turkestan division (called "the Mongols") mixed with Republican exponents, who dispersed in the nucleus inhabited in search of food. A local partisan, Oreste Scaglioni, an eyewitness to the episode, reported that in the fight and in the moments that followed it the German soldiers showed much more clemency than the forces of the Republic of Salò, who instead became the protagonists of some cold-blooded killings, even of partisans now rendered harmless and disarmed. Of the approximately sixty partisans present on the various vehicles, twenty-five were killed in the fighting on the Po

According to tradition, the oratory dates back to the year 1000 and houses the imprint of the Madonna's foot. The building, of extreme simplicity, has a gable roof; Inside there are traces of ancient frescoes.