Visit Iola di Montese - Tourism and travel tips for your vacation or weekend.

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Rocca di Roffeno (8,2Km)Rocca di Roffeno, in the hills of the province of Bologna

Porretta Terme (9,8Km)Wellness oasis

Alto Reno Terme (9,8Km)Porretta Terme: sports, nature and relax at the spa

Marzabotto (22,8Km)remember and live

Rocca di Roffeno, in the hills of the province of Bologna

At an altitude of 750 meters. in the green hills of Emilia Romagna, there is Rocca di Roffeno in the municipality of Castel D'Aiano.
The tiny town offers some interesting monuments such as the Church of San Martino from 1700. The original church was much older than the twelfth century. The Romanesque remains of the old church are visible at the foot of the bell tower.
Just outside the inhabited nucleus is the Abbey of Santa Lucia di Roffeno, probably from the tenth century. The church remained there and inside there are some frescoes and a crypt. The convent was built to offer travelers who traveled on foot the Toscana Emilia route the opportunity to stay overnight without danger.
The landscape is a kaleidoscope of shades of green. Ideal for total relaxation and take a few motorbike rides to discover the area. Cycling is also possible but you have to work a lot of effort! To quench the body after the effort, you must visit the farm La Fenice with an excellent restaurant.
A special delicacy is eaten in the Rocca during the Borlengo festival in June. This typical specialty of the mountains is a middle road between crèpe and piadina. The big hot 'piadina' is seasoned with a hot mixture of chopped bacon, garlic and rosemary and then sprinkled with grated Parmigiano Reggiano. A real calorie bomb!
Throughout the territory you can go on beautiful hikes and, if you get up early or get on the road towards nightfall, it's easy to spot deer and deer and hear hawks and buzzards flying.

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Wellness oasis

Porretta Terme, thermal pools

The thermal baths, evocative places, date back to Roman times. The discovery of fragments of a statute from the Etruscan period indicates that these populations already used the benefits of thermal waters.
The waters can be classified, according to their chemical composition, in salsobromoiodic (Mars, Bove, Donzelle and Leone springs) flowing from the bed of the Rio Maggiore stream and sulphurous (Puzzola, Porretta Nuova and Galleria della Madonna springs) gush to the left of the River Rhine. At Porretta Terme every season is always ideal for reconnecting with nature and physical activity. There are different facilities to stay and use the benefits of the spa depending on every taste and need. It is known that the TransAppennine Railway has contributed decisively to the economic and social development of the populations of the Rhine Valley, breaking their ancient isolation. Among the designers who was entrusted with the construction of the railway, the French engineer Jean Louis Protche had great importance to whom the current Piazza della Stazione di Porretta Terme is dedicated. An oasis of the Bolognese Apennines, on the border between Emilia and Tuscany: Porretta Terme.

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Porretta Terme: sports, nature and relax at the spa

Emilia Romagna, Porretta Terme

At the foothills of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, lies Porretta Terme, a town that offers many possibilities for sports and outdoors, in close contact with nature, such as horseback riding, hiking and mountain biking.

The tourist routes in the area are numerous and include beautiful landscapes; remember the Valle dei Laghi, Parco Montovolo and several medieval villages and archaeological sites.

In particular, Porretta Terme is a renowned spa to combine sport and wellness, body and soul.
The sulphurous thermal waters of the town have been known since time immemorial and they are now being used to create particularly effective therapies; diseases regarding ears, nose and throat are mainly treated through irrigation and misting while dermatitis and psoriasis are treated with thermal baths.

In addition to diseases, the waters of Porretta are valuable allies in aesthetics, the beauty salon attached to the spa offers massages, mud wraps and detox treatments, balancing and weight loss programs for a complete remise en forme.

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remember and live

The Second World War (1939 -45), unfortunately left deep and bitter marks in different places and people... sad and moving stories of innocent people killed during an unprecedented war for research political and government supremacy...

A city in particular, Marzabotto, in Emilia Romagna, was sadly marked by a terrible and unspeakable massacre committed against its people by the hand German... was, and is, considered one of the greatest massacres of civilians in that horrendous war.

In a pitiful attempt to control the advance of the partisan guerrillas (especially the Red Star commanded by a partisan called 'Wolf') who fought against the fascio-Nazi control, the German soldiers shot more than 1830 civilians without mercy.

The desperate population, and feeling the danger, took refuge in the church of Santa Maria Assunta... in cold blood, the Nazi soldiers arrived gunning and killing

right there, three civilians and the priest Fr Ubaldo Marchioni, the rest of the inhabitants of the municipality were taken to the cemetery where men, women, elderly people and at least 50 children were ruthlessly killed... I invite you to know this historic city, asking everyone that, once you arrive there, visit the place and that you pray, whatever your faith may be, in honor of the lost souls of that 29 September 1944.

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Visit Iola di Montese - Tourism and travel tips for your vacation or weekend.

Travel guides and videos

Rocca di Roffeno (8,2Km)Rocca di Roffeno, in the hills of the province of Bologna

Porretta Terme (9,8Km)Wellness oasis

Alto Reno Terme (9,8Km)Porretta Terme: sports, nature and relax at the spa

Marzabotto (22,8Km)remember and live

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