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 →Bore is a village born from a road. When in the eighteenth century the duchy of Parma opened the Stradone per Genova, whose stretch towards Bardi was inaugurated in 1773, the road was later fitted with roadmen's houses and posting stations for changing horses: around one of those roadmen's houses people began to build, and those houses are the village of today. The name, one hypothesis says, comes from Boreas, the cold wind: the coat of arms shows the north wind coming out of a cloud.
The municipality dates from 1919, when the Cenedola valley was detached from Pellegrino Parmense, and it was called Metti e Pozzolo, after the two older settlements; the following year it became Bore di Metti, and in 1932, since Bore was growing faster than the rest, only Bore was left. In the oratory of Santa Felicita stands a seventeenth-century wooden statue of the saint with the seven heads of her sons.
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Near Bore
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Bore, but an easy day trip away.
Castellana Caves 📍 Castellana Grotte · 1.8 km A 3,348-meter karst cave system mapped in 1938, noted for its 60-meter-deep skylight and dazzling white formations. Santuario di Maria Santissima Regina del Mondo 📍 Monopoli · 6.4 km The sanctuary in the Antonelli district of Monopoli, rebuilt as a vow for the town's safety and consecrated in 1950. Rione Monti 📍 Alberobello · 13 km The 1,030 trulli of Alberobello's larger quarter, laid dry-stone to dodge a tax. Trullo Sovrano 📍 Alberobello · 12 km With walls reaching 2.70 metres in thickness, the Trullo Sovrano is the supreme example of dry-stone architecture. Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali 📍 Polignano a Mare · 13 km Puglia's only permanent contemporary art museum, set in a former slaughterhouse overlooking the sea in Polignano. Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate 📍 Fasano · 17 km The Observant friars' church in Fasano, with its dome, onion-spired bell tower and frescoed 1600s cloister.