Ligonchio - Italy

Ligonchio (RE)

Emilia Romagna (Italy)

In Ligonchio time passes slowly. With its extraordinary landscape, the area retains characteristics of absolute value: can you really say that nature preserves integrates its full force in the clear waters, forests of beech and chestnut, still in the fields dotted with wild lilies, gentian and orchids, the rarest species of wildlife such as deer, mouflon, deer, marmots, eagles and hawks.
Then there are structures of considerable architectural interest, with ancient villages and farmyards paved carved stone portals, speakers, fountains, wash that, together, create a unique atmosphere that encourages tourists to hiking in a natural and uncontaminated environment.
Ligonchio is a place to visit at any time of year: in spring and summer, the landscape is green and lush with the scent of fragrant flowers that gives notes in the air, whereas in autumn many fans have called for the collection of mushrooms , chestnuts and cranberries.
Finally, the winter snow attracts skiers and alpine skiing or hiking with snowshoes and crampons.
Ligonchio is the highest common Appennino Reggiano and is situated between the beautiful valleys and Ozola Secchia, near the slopes of Mount Cusna in the heart of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennine National Park.
In the old center is worth visiting the religious building dedicated to St. Andrew, who shows a simple façade of the seventeenth century while the tower dates from the first half of the eighteenth century.
A Ligonchio Above is the ancient chapel dedicated to San Rocco, the building facade shows a remarkable seventeenth-century portal, whose salaries come from a building of ancient origin: indeed, there appear some epigraphs sixteenth flanked by symbolic figures.