Strolling between Baganza and Sporzana valleys
Trekking and hiking are not just high mountain activities or of exotic locations around the world, sometimes even a simple walk around our house can became a small adventure full of discoveries. The landscape is not just a meadow, a tree and a sky above, landscape is also history and stories, art, nature, flowers, insects, chat and emotions. Landscape is how man has interacted with nature over time, to live with it and find harmony and balance in the elements. Landscape is also agriculture, which with its activities draws the meadows and hills with geometric and abstract graphics. But to discover all this, you have to walk in the landscape, you have to breathe it, explore it, touch it, in short, you have to live it, because after all ourself are the landscape, especially in the places where we live. And the Italian landscape is our treasure, because it is all an unfolding of wonders at every step.
Walking along the paths and cartways of these hills you can meet, in addition to suggestive landscapes, also various historical testimonies, such as the castles of San Vitale Baganza and Selva Smeralda or strong houses such as that of Neviano de Rossi, Palmia or the beautiful Torre del Boriano . The church of Poggio di Sant'Ilario is beautiful with its medieval bas-reliefs, while at the gates of Sala Baganza there are still the ruins of a Roman aqueduct. No less interesting are the evidence of industrial archeology scattered in the woods around Vallezza di Respiccio, where there are the remains of the oil wells that sucked the black gold from the Parma underground at the beginning of the last century.