Bagnara di Romagna
Member of I Borghi più belli d'Italia
Rocca, walls, town gate, earth ramparts and moat: Bagnara is the only medieval castrum on the plain south of the Po to survive complete. It was refounded on this site after the old village was destroyed in 1222, and Caterina Sforza later met the Duke of Calabria secretly in the rocca in 1494. It lies on the Stradelli Guelfi, an old route linking castles from Bologna to the sea.
Highlights
- The rocca where Caterina Sforza met the Duke of Calabria in 1494
- A complete circuit of walls, gate, ramparts and moat
- Prati di Sant'Andrea, site of the earlier Bagnara, now an archaeological area
- The Stradelli Guelfi, an old route linking castles from Bologna to the Adriatic
Summary based on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.
Population: 2,392
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Travel guide (Wikivoyage)
Faenza is a comune of 59,000 people (2020) in Emilia-Romagna. Faenza, at the foot of the first sub-apennine hills, is surrounded by an agricultural region including vineyards in the hills, and cultivated land with traces of the ancient Roman land-division system, and fertile market gardens in the plains. In the nearby green valleys of the rivers Samoggia and Lamone there are a great number of 18th and 19th century stately homes, set in extensive grounds or preceded by long cypress-lined driveways.
Nearby member villages
- Dozza · 17 km
- Brisighella · 19 km
- Bertinoro · 35 km
- Palazzuolo sul Senio · 37 km
- Scarperia e San Piero · 58 km