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On the Trail of the House of Este

in and Around Modena

Palazzo Comunale di Modena

Modena’s Palazzo Comunale is made up of a seventeenth century unit composed of a series of buildings erected for different purposes in medieval times.

Parco dei Sassi di Roccamalatina

A regional preserve, the Sassi di Roccamalatina Regional Park covers nearly 5,700 acres between Guiglia, Marano sul Panaro, and Zocca. The “Sassi,” the three ...

Riserva naturale delle Salse di NIrano (Nature riserve)

A geological phenomenon of international importance, the Salse originate where fundamentally gaseous hydrocarbon deposits, particularly methane, come into ...

Romantic stops in and around Modena

Ten stops for lovers and dreamers.

Sanctuary of the Madonna of the Fiorano castle

The Sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin of the Castle, a magnificent example of Baroque architecture, dominates the hill of Fiorano, in the place where the ancient ...

Terme della Salvarola

Salvarola Spa, renowned already in the Roman times provides four kinds of water: salt-bromine-iodic water, sulphur-sodic water, calcic water and ...

Villa Gandini (former villa Aggazzotti)

The Gandinis, a noble family from Modena related to the Este court, became owners of the building in 1791; at that time it was an eighteenth-century hunting ...