Prosciutto di Parma pork leg and sea salt, aged at least twelve months
Only Italian pork and sea salt, aged for at least twelve months: Prosciutto di Parma has held Protected Designation of Origin status since 1996.
Read more →The Romans took Bedonia in 167 before Christ: the proconsul Marcus Fulvius Nobilior set fire to the forest of Monte Penna and deported part of the inhabitants to Samnium. Then, on the wood that was left, they put a forest restriction, and the restriction held: the richness of trees in the area came through intact at least until the year one thousand. Under its Roman name, Bitunia, the village appears in Trajan's alimentary table.
Between 1941 and 1943 Bedonia was a place of free internment: twenty-eight Jewish refugees from the Balkans and Dalmatia lived here under forced residence. After the German occupation seven were arrested, at the end of November, and deported to Auschwitz in April 1944; the others fled and nearly all of them survived. The stumbling stones have been laid in front of the houses where they had lodged.
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Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 11 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 11 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 12 km Romanesque pieve of 1184, the oldest church in Carpi, with a Peruzzi façade and twelfth-century frescoes. Chiesa di San Bernardino da Siena 📍 Carpi · 12 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.