몬테키아루골로 최고의 라이딩 경로

excellent and quiet road to avoid the busy parallel provincial road

Pedaling to “stop”…, it's counterintuitive but that's how it works. The legs turn together with the thoughts and this movement generates a vortex that cleans, which creates the space necessary to be "illuminated", to leave room only for important things.

First Castle encountered during the return, the Catello di Panocchia. The castle, whose history is almost unknown, was probably built between the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century at the behest of the Cantelli counts, feudal lords of Panocchia and already owners of a building in the village at least since 1422. Following the death in 1736 of the last count Paolo Cantelli, the building was inherited by the marquis Alfonso Bevilacqua, his great-nephew, who added his great-uncle's surname to his own. The structure, modified several times, became the summer residence of the family, who hosted various illustrious people there, including the poet Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni, who remembered the stay in one of his compositions. In 1974 it was bought by the brothers of the Piacenza Nicelli family, who later passed it on to their descendants.[

The name of the castle stems from the term “Torciara”, literally “wine press”, as in the Middle Ages, this area this area was renowned for its vineyards and olive tree groves. Between 1448 and 1460, “condottiero” Pier Maria II de’ Rossi, a powerful lord of these lands, ordered the construction of this complex on a preexisting fortified building. The structure had to fulfill a double role, a dichotomy of sense and function. On the one hand, it was a military and defensive stronghold for the control of the underlying valley. On the other hand, however, it was the cradle of his love for Bianca Pellegrini di Arturo. Inside, the castle the decorations of the lunettes and of the rib vaults pay homage to the story of Pier Mattia and Bianca Pellegrini.

for info this is the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CastelloDiTorrechiara

San Polo d'Enza represents an important point of communication between the Reggio Emilia and Parma areas and between the plain and the Apennines; the name derives in part from S. Polo, to which a chapel was dedicated, and in part from the Enza, the river that laps its borders. Famous is its fortress and the Museum of the Resistance

We cyclists also have (or have had) one, which perhaps (as in my case) taught us how to ride! Stocking up with water in this fountain helps us to remember them, with affection and gratitude!

beautiful church in a magnificent setting