ヴィゴルツォンの天然記念物・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.

Beautiful landscape

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.

Pietra Parcellara, one of the mountains best known to the people of Piacenza, is also called the "Matterhorn of Valtrebbia" because with its sharp tip it recalls the much better known and highest mountain symbol of the Alps. Solitary, as no mountain comes alongside it from Travo up to the slopes of Monte San Lazzaro, the Pietra Parcellara presents itself with a thousand different faces and aspects, each time surprising: from Travo it is round like a helmet, from Perino it is pointed and sharp like a hard and black cone, from Cassolo it is flat and wide.

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.