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 village is named after the Melegari, the family of notaries who worked for the Pallavicino: it served to tell it from the other Varano, the one of the Marchesi. In the castle prisons, in 1442, Annibale Bentivoglio was shut up; he came out on the sixth of June the following year, carried off by Galeazzo Marescotti and four other Bolognese.
In 1969 a handful of enthusiasts, among them the engineer Giampaolo Dallara, opened a racing circuit here; in 1972 Dallara set up his racing-chassis works in the village, and there it has stayed. Since 1983 the track has carried the name of Riccardo Paletti, the driver who had begun racing here and who died that year in the Canadian Grand Prix.
🍝 The flavours of Varano de' Melegari
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Near Varano de' Melegari
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Varano de' Melegari, 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.