Baiso - Lands of Matilde of Canossa

Baiso (RE)

Lands of Matilde of Canossa - Emilia Romagna (Italy)

Among the green hills and crystal clear air of the mountains there is room for modernity and technology.
A Baiso clinging along the ridges of a vast amphitheater gullies, living tower-houses belonging to the medieval tradition and modern houses.
Churches, castles and modern industrial facilities. Intertwine so without too much noise, the rural agricultural nature and stories of the past and current activities that make it one of the most important economically, the whole mountain area.
Piled around the center of many small towns: Castagneto, Ca del Monte, the village, the Forest, Colombaia Fontanella Tresinaro, Lugar, Houses Braglia, Cassinago, Paderna and VRONCO, and remain, still active, important quarries that provide the ground feedstock for the production of ceramics and, together with typical ridges gullies, which seem to give the area a distinctive and unique appearance, which recalls the harshness of the moon.
It 's still possible to understand the fascination of the historical events that took Baiso as theater.
As we take the testimony in the various buildings of historic value: the old rural church of San Lorenzo, the town of Borgo di Cassinago with the typical bell tower of the XVII century XVIII that rises on the north elevation and especially the Castle Baiso.
The beautiful mansion that was fortified and the Fogliani Este and in our century that belonged to the film critic Peter White (and collects memories) is, and not only in cheese, an excellent example of medieval fortification of the period between the XII and XIV century, with the typical elongated shape, the enclosure defined by two screens, the tower and the residential building protected from the outside.
Of great scenic beauty are also roads that lead to Baiso and Baiso unfold through villages and hamlets, of San Romano, which houses a Church of the fifteenth century, Visignolo with the Church of the Assumption, which is one of the oldest All the Apennines, to Villa Bucciardi,
with the building typology of the most important places.
Baiso is also popular destination for nature tourism and the environment thanks to the mild climate, a major network of paths, and a small but elegant swimming pool.
To visit the Ca 'Toschi who gave birth to John the Baptist Toschi (1848 - 1934) the great scholar who first inventoried and cared for the monuments and cultural heritage of the entire Apennines, and that preserves the furniture, books and cards and cottage Venturi named by the famous historical Scandiano, light and elegant in its style liberty in the green of the park that the student wanted to build for his rest and his studies.