Vetto - Lands of Matilde of Canossa

Vetto (RE)

Lands of Matilde of Canossa - Emilia Romagna (Italy)

A combination of all historical value, environmental, cultural and media landscapes of mountain Reggio: all this represents.
The territory is divided into three zones, within which there are buildings of historical and architectural: the village, Ca 'mouth, the castle courtyards, massive homes - tower, ancient doorways of the XVI - XVII century and the Church of St. Lawrence Martyr, of Romanesque origin, with the ancient bell tower.
If you pass here, do not forget to visit the villages with the courts and the fortresses of the marshes, the feudal lords of Matilda: Legoreccio wonderfully inserted into the woods and chestnut trees and where stands the house of Da Swamp, one of the most important buildings stately mountains, walled courtyard, porch, porch with columns and medieval tower and pine woods, the house with two rows of porch with painted icons.
The building is decorated with two portals, one of which is dated 1583, on the edge of the village, is instead the old house with vaulted prison.
Finally, the Village of Cottane, proudly overlooking the coast to the top of a cliff in the north-east over the Enza and the Village of fifteenth-century castle with tower - house and the adjoining oratory.
The medieval Church of St. Stephen, with picturesque square, surrounded by a green carpet of conifer trees and overlooking the valley fair Rosane.
The newly renovated building, seems to date back to pre-Roman, although remain architectural finds attributable to the Carolingian period and interesting traces of frescoes from the fourteenth and fifteenth century.
Heart of an area mostly untouched, the City of Vetto button in the wide plain area that kneels at the foot of the mountains and Fatilo Coast, overlooking the lovely river Enza.
The atmosphere and the landscape of peaks, strong medieval capital between past and present, has given inspiration to the pages of the Apennines. Adventures in a landscape choral novel of love and landscapes, conflicts and utopias, whose characters are mixed in extraordinary places.
The author is Crovi Raphael, a native of the town of Cola.