Between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. so much beauty.

The path involves five stages. The journey begins in Gualtieri, a town in the Reggio plain, where the Bentivoglio Marquises built a small Renaissance palace. In Piazza Cavallotti, two towers face each other in the perimeter of the arches that seem endless and the eye loses count. In an area that has 100 square meters, the arcades have beamed ceilings, an architectural refinement that borders the great Collegiate and leads to the colorful houses, small as tiles, elegant with the well of the '770 colonnade, like an elegant shrine. Here was born the painter Ligabue, whose works are collected in the small museum. We go down to the crypt of Santa Maria della neve, still visited by the waters of the Pò. Not far away we go to Guastalla which belonged to the Gonzagas until the 18th century. They gave order to the city, founding new streets ordered according to the Renaissance scheme of the ideal and orderly city. We cross the courtyard of the Doge's Palace to head to Castelvetro. Different and medieval, with the Piazza balcony overlooking the Apennines, it is paved with river stones, which lead the pass under the two towers. A good lunch of typical dishes awaits us in Vignola where we visit Palazzo Barozzi and continue to Spilamberto, a village famous for the review of balsamic vinegar, its flagship. The last visit is reserved for the castle and the medieval tower, which have never been scratched by time.