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Beautiful ride between the provinces of PV and PC to do not immediately after a day of rain, terrain in parts clay and muddy. At km. 6.40 take the low variant because the one that gives the track is impassable.

The Rocca di Pianello Val Tidone is an imposing medieval fortress dating back to the 13th century. Built for defensive purposes, the fortress dominates the village with its massive walls and strategic position. Today it houses the Archaeological Museum of Val Tidone, which preserves prehistoric, Roman and medieval finds, offering an overview of local history.

The origins of the village of Nibbiano date back to before the year 1000, a time when it is assumed that the complex was a walled-fortified village with the castle at the center. Some buildings, in fact, still show signs of the slits used to place drawbridges and walkways and the castle tower itself still retains its blocked-up battlements. Until the 14th century it was part of the possessions of the Monastery of San Colombano di Bobbio and in 1335 it passed to the Marquises Malvicini Fontana; in 1765 the Azara family owned the entire village. The castle, built in 1029, is made up of various portions that have been remodeled, demolished and rebuilt over time, especially between the 17th and 18th centuries, until it was transformed into Palazzo Malvicini Fontana with its current conformation. The internal staircase features a 17th-century fresco on the ceiling depicting the coats of arms of the Malvicini Fontana and Dal Verme families.

A very cute and characteristic village, typical of the area

The Monument to the Bridgeman of Italy was built in 1928 in honor of the 2nd Bridge Engineer Regiment. It is a department of the Italian Army founded in Piacenza in 1883 and engaged in both military actions and rescue activities for the population during the massive floods of the Po river.

The Rocca di Pianello is believed to have been built towards the end of the fourteenth century, perhaps adapting a pre-existing 10th century fortress, destroyed by Federico Barbarossa in 1164. The reconstruction probably took place following the Visconti investiture of Jacopo Dal Verme in 1378. The irregular plan of the The building is perhaps due to the need to place a late medieval extension to the only tower of which we traditionally have memory. The owners made important changes in the 17th century, transforming it into a private home; today the building houses the Municipality of Pianello and the Archaeological Museum of Val Tidone, which houses the fundamental evidence that emerged from excavations in the area.

Today the fortress represents a synthesis between the austerity of medieval defensive architecture and the elegance of the Renaissance stately home; surrounded by a garden built on the ancient moat, it has a rectangular plan with two round towers at the corners of the facade; the internal courtyard is surrounded on three sides by a loggia. The oldest part, built in the 13th century, well before the advent of the Scotti, was part of a complex of watchtowers, very numerous in an area between valleys contested by lords and crossed by bands of adventurers. The toll tower was built later to collect tolls from those who went to the market to sell animals and foodstuffs. The large garden is populated with stone statues depicting the Olympian divinities: it connects the fifteenth-century fortress with the villa built at the end of the eighteenth century in a real setting.

Of the original castle, located on a rather impervious coast formed by the Rio Canto, in the upper part of Piozzano, few traces remain in poor conservation conditions after the division of the entire complex into various properties and the consequent transformation for residential use[1 ]. Of the original structure there are some stone, pebble and brick wall structures, which retain arched windows and, inside, rooms with wooden coffered ceilings