Patron saint festival In 199 days
Feast of San Giuseppe
📅 Every year, on 1 May
On 1 May Valmozzola, a municipality of 567 inhabitants in the province of Parma, celebrates its patron San Giuseppe.
In 981 the emperor Otto II granted the Pallavicino the rocca of Gusaliggio and the whole Val di Mozzola: the fortress stands on a crag falling sheer to the stream. In 1428 the condottiero Niccolò Piccinino took the castle of Pellegrino and arrested the Pallavicino marquis, who under torture confessed to having plotted against the duke of Milan: he was sentenced to death, and ten years later the fief went to Piccinino himself.
Of the fortress only ruins remain, and the reason is simple: whoever bought it took it apart to build, a little further on, the family palace. That palace later became the town hall of Valmozzola, until at the beginning of the twentieth century the offices moved to Mormorola, where they still are. It is a scattered comune, the least populous in the province of Parma.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Valmozzola 1
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🍝 The flavours of Valmozzola
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.
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Near Valmozzola
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Valmozzola, but an easy day trip away.
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.