Castelponzone

Rope was this village's living: for generations almost every family turned hemp from the surrounding fields into cord, a trade now remembered in the Museo dei Cordai. Once the seat of the Ponzone family's fief, a few kilometres north of the Po, it kept its grid of low, wide arcaded streets and narrow alleys because decline left no call for new building.

Highlights

• Museo dei Cordai, with tools and old photographs of the ropemakers
• Sixteenth-century arcades and the southern gate
• A surviving crenellated tower from the demolished Rocca, on the eastern side
• Pumpkin tortelli, marubini with Lambrusco cream and the village salame

Summary based on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.