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 →Above Chiastre di Ravarano stand the Salti del Diavolo: rock towers in a row that cut across the valley. They are conglomerates from the floor of a vanished ocean; at the base they hold large pebbles, smaller ones higher up, and at the top a whitish paste that until the twentieth century was fetched from up there to make cornices and doorframes for the houses of the district.
In 1350 the inhabitants signed, because Giovanni Visconti wanted it, a declaration acknowledging that their territory had once belonged to the Comune of Parma: that signature was enough to take away the autonomy they had held since 1249. Then, in 1426, Pier Maria de' Rossi laid siege to the fortress of Marzolara and took it after twenty-four days of bombardment.
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Royal Palace of Caserta 📍 Caserta · 21 km The Bourbon palace: 1,200 rooms, 1,742 windows and three kilometres of fountains uphill. Ponte Leproso 📍 Benevento · 17 km Roman bridge over the Sabato where the Via Appia entered Benevento, rebuilt in 1712; UNESCO site. Basilica del Corpus Domini 📍 Maddaloni · 17 km Maddaloni's main church, with a high altar designed by Luigi Vanvitelli and panels by Pompeo Landolfo. basilica della Madonna delle Grazie 📍 Benevento · 17 km Neoclassical Greek-cross basilica to the patron Madonna of Benevento, with a Franciscan convent. teatro romano di Benevento 📍 Benevento · 17 km Roman theatre inaugurated under Hadrian between 125 and 128, with a 98-metre cavea; still used for shows. duomo di Benevento 📍 Benevento · 17 km Cathedral rebuilt after its destruction in 1943, keeping the Romanesque façade, bell tower and ancient crypt.