Busana - Italy

Busana (RE)

Emilia Romagna (Italy)

SS 63, which in these parts is known as the Duke's Road, in memory of Este domain that administered the area until after the unification of Italy, passing from Busan, border territory by the various surveys altitude, ranging 500 meters from the river Secchia up to 1727 meters of Mount Ventasso.
The air live in the mountains of the Apennines will accompany you throughout the visit that is divided between fine woods like chestnut fruit planting medieval villages of stone from the ancient taste, until the Sparavalle fort built by Duke Francesco IV recently restored.
In Busan is the optimal position of great importance: the area is considered a natural balcony from which to admire the massive mountain Cusna and sequencing of the Secchia valley of Triassic gypsum, limestone and sandstone up to Mount Ventasso.
Nature is the true lady of these places important flora, fauna, but also with deer and wild boar.
Of remarkable beauty even the historic villages:
Ca Manar, reached out to Busana towards Ligonchio;
Nismozza, which stretches down the slope toward the bucket;
Ca Ferrari, cottages and supported each other and supported by buttresses, with dense narrow streets and cobbled lanes.
Frassinedolo is mentioned in documents from 1153 and a map of the monastery of march 1197
The present Church which preserves the marble Baptistery Carmela Adani and paintings of Charles Destri, was built in 1822 with a grant of Duke Francis IV itself, you can see a fine eighteenth-century aristocratic building stone to plant on two square levels and an arched entrance gate.
In the village of Talada at Busana, this is the studio of sculptor James he could.
Annex garden workshop - you can admire the art of carving wood, walnut, olive, chestnut and volcanic stone which represent inimitable skill with religious and secular figures.
The small village of Talada is also famous for being the birthplace, in the fifteenth century, a great artist known as Master of Borsigliano, author of numerous boards and altarpieces, now preserved in churches and museums in Tuscany.
Busana also gave birth to Theresa Romei Fix (1898 - 1986) for fifty years that the poet told the story, people and places of our Apennines.
Busana has dedicated the Cultural Center of Cervarezza.
The Caps Cervarezza - According to the evidence left by the elders of the village, the cork industry to Cervarezza is lost in the mists of time.
Transhumance in the Maremma, to spend the winter with their flocks or to offer their labor, allowed a first contact with the ball of cork and the opportunity to work.
The bark of the cork that came to Cervarezza was handmade by members of the family home and winery, to get the first rudimentary stoppers.
Today the process has been industrialized and continues through which local actors should be given credit for having preserved this important tradition of life and culture.
You can retrace the history of this tradition by visiting the Cork Museum.