A TRUE HISTORICAL RESIDENCE IN THE PARMA APENNINES
A TRUE HISTORICAL RESIDENCE IN THE PARMA APENNINES
As Goethe wrote in his Italian Journey, the best way to understand an area is to spend a night in a traditional house that reflects the atmosphere of the place and still shows the identity of its material culture. A house that, like pictures hanging on the walls, shows intact passages of landscape through the windows. A house in which the light that enters dimly and on tiptoe touches the walls as it once did.
THE PROTECTED LANDSCAPE OF THE EMILIAN APENNINES
The Rocca di Valle di Castrignano is immersed in the landscape of the Protected Area of the Bosso and Sporno Mountains, part of the Unesco Mab Reserve.
The area is easily accessible on foot thanks to the numerous marked itineraries, and it is therefore possible to make numerous circular excursions of varying lengths starting and returning directly to the Rocca
THE RESTORATION PROJECT
The Rocca has undergone a meticulous restoration that has lasted for years and is still ongoing. Our love for this place, for the countryside, for the landscape and for rural architecture has driven us to take care of this complex in a project that has certainly involved us and will involve us for the rest of our lives, convinced that the protection of the landscape, architecture and history is not a gift to ourselves, but to all the communities that live and will live in these places in the future. As my father used to say: “take from history, give back to history”.
ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE
AND TRADITIONS
OF "MINOR" ITALY
The Rocca and the architecture of the protected area of the Bosso and Sporno mountains together constitute a cultural heritage to be protected. An inseparable cultural unity of landscape and architecture.
Beauty has no categories: there is no difference between a small stone house or a large piece of classical architecture. It is the whole and their relationship, respectful of the landscape, that counts.
Living in beauty and history means having the possibility of living well and making the territory “one's own” territory.
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THE LONGOBARD WAY
The Rocca di Valle di Castrignano is located on the Via Longobarda, a historic path traveled in medieval times by pilgrims traveling to Rome and is one of the official stopping points on the path.
From the Rocca it is possible to walk along a stretch of the ridge from which the view extends towards the highest peaks of the Parma and Reggio Emilia Apennines.