🌳Parco Regionale in Emilia-Romagna

Brisighella

Province: Ravenna · 115 m

A Lamone-valley borgo at 115 meters under three selenite hills crowned by a fortress, a clock tower, and a sanctuary.

Castell'Arquato

Province: Piacenza · 224 m

A 224-meter hilltop borgo in the Val d'Arda, kept intact since the tenth century and crowned by Luchino Visconti's 1342 fortress.

Castelvetro di Modena

Province: Modena · 152 m

A 152-meter hill borgo south of Modena whose checkerboard piazza sits above the slopes that grow Lambrusco Grasparossa.

Cervia

Province: Ravenna · 2 m

The Adriatic salt town with 827 hectares of working saline, planned in 1697 around a grid of salt workers' houses.

Comacchio

Province: Ferrara

A canal town on thirteen islets at the edge of the Po Delta, with brackish lagoons that hold three hundred bird species.

Corniglio

Province: Parma · 690 m

A 690-meter Parma-Apennine commune inside the Tosco-Emiliano park, with a thirteenth-century Rossi castle and the Lagdei plateau above.

Fiumalbo

Province: Modena · 935 m

A 935-meter stone village in the Modenese Apennines on the Tuscan border, at the confluence of two rivers under Monte Cimone.

Parma

Province: Parma · 57 m

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A 57-meter Po-plain capital on the Via Emilia, where Correggio painted the Duomo dome and Parmigiano ages in vaults across the province.

Ravenna

Province: Ravenna · 4 m

A 4-meter coastal capital of three successive empires, with eight UNESCO mosaic monuments from the fifth and sixth centuries.

Vernasca

Province: Piacenza · 457 m

A Val d'Arda commune in the Piacenza Apennines, holding the walled village of Vigoleno and one of the most compact castled borghi in Emilia.

Collecchio

Province: Parma · 112 m

The Parma-cintura town on the Via Francigena, home to the Pieve di San Prospero, Parmalat, and Parma F.C.'s training ground.

Fanano

Province: Modena · 640 m

A 640-meter stone-working town in the Modenese Apennines, set among Monte Cimone, Libro Aperto and the upper Frignano peaks.

Sestola

Province: Modena · 1,020 m

A 1,020-meter Apennine town under Monte Cimone, with a Lombard-era castle above and the largest ski domain of central Italy on the slopes.

Pennabilli

Province: Rimini · 629 m

A 629-meter Montefeltro borgo between the Roccione and the Rupe, rebuilt as a poet's open-air museum by Tonino Guerra after 1989.

Vignola

Province: Modena · 125 m

The cherry-and-castle town on the Panaro at 125 meters, with the Contrari fortress and Barozzi's self-supporting 1500s spiral staircase.