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 →A legend says that three villages hereabouts carry the pieces of one man's name: the Roman general Titus Cornelius Balbus is supposed to have founded Tizzano, Corniglio and Ballone, giving each a part of what he was called. The real name comes instead from a Titius who had an estate here; the notion of a burning brand found while digging does not hold at all.
The village appears for the first time on 8 March 991, in a deed by which Prangarda, daughter of Adalbert Atto of Canossa, sells some property. In 1551 a French garrison had shut itself in the castle: Ferrante Gonzaga shelled it at length, the French left by night without saying anything, and the soldiers sacked the village all the same.
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chiesa di San Marco 📍 Rovereto · 5.3 km The parish church of Marco di Rovereto, documented from 1180 and rebuilt after the First World War. Biotopo Lavini di Marco 📍 Rovereto · 6.8 km The landslide from Monte Zugna, with dinosaur trackways discovered in 1990 and two small lakes. chiesa di San Floriano 📍 Rovereto · 8.5 km The old mother church of Lizzana, parent of Rovereto's churches, with two sixteenth-century frescoes on the façade. Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km Rovereto's bell, cast from the bronze of every belligerent's cannon. sacrario militare di Castel Dante 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km The First World War ossuary on the hill above Rovereto, with about twenty thousand fallen of several nations. Castel Lizzana 📍 Rovereto · 9.0 km The scant remains of the Castelbarco castle above Lizzana, destroyed by the Venetians in 1439, in the memorial grounds.