| Brisighella | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Emilia Romagna | |
| Territory | Romagna Apennines | |
| Altitude | 115 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 194.38 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 7.700 (2012) | |
| Name inhabitants | Brisighellesi | |
| Prefix tel | 39 0546 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 48013 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
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Brisighella is a city ofEmilia Romagna.
To know
On the first Apennine hills of Faenza, the ancient inhabited area rises above the modern part that has developed in the plain. It is a spa. It boasts the recognition of Orange flag attributed by the TCI and is part of the most beautiful villages in Italy.
Geographical notes
In the Lamone valley, on the road that leads from Faenza connect the Romagna to Tuscany it's at Florence.
Background
Founded in 1290 by Maghinardo Pagani di Susinana, the center took advantage of the proximity of the Lamone, the intersection of commercial roads, some of which were already used in Roman times, the presence of hills that morphologically provided shelter for the defense of the town and abundance of chalk in the hills as a natural wealth. Therefore two fortifications were built on a chalky hill: the Tower of Maghinardo, which later became the Clock Tower, and the more powerful fortress built on another hill in the sixteenth century.
How to orient yourself
Brisighella: full screen map.Neighborhoods
In its vast municipal territory there are also the inhabited centers of Boesimo, Casale, Castellina, Croce Daniele, Fognano, Fornazzano, La Strada, Marzeno, Monte Romano, Pietramora, Purocielo, Rontana, San Cassiano, San Martino in Gattara, Urbiano, Villa San Giorgio in Vezzano and Zattaglia.
How to get
By plane
- 1 Rimini Airport (F. Fellini).
- 2 Bologna airport (G.Marconi), Via Triumvirato 84, ☎ 39 051 6479615.
- 3 Parma airport (G. Verdi), Via Emilia - Golese locality, ☎ 39 0521 951511.
By car
Toll booth of 
Highway brisighelleseOn the train
It has its own station on the line How to get around
What see
- 1 Rocca Manfrediana, via Rontana. Its construction was begun in 1310 by Francesco Manfredi, lord of Faenza; it came to its present appearance with the structural interventions of 1457, by Astorgio II Manfredi and in 1503 by the Venetians, who erected the main tower. The Rocca di Brisighella is one of the best preserved fortifications in the region.
- 2 Clock tower. It was the ancient tower of Maghinardo, transformed in the sixteenth century after the erection of the fortress. It houses a collection of instruments that over the centuries were used to measure time. Preserve a reproduction of the famous Foucault's pendulum.
- 3 Collegiate Church of Saints Michael and John the Baptist, piazza Carducci. Built in the seventeenth century, it contains works from the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.
- 4 Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli. One is kept in the choir Madonna and Child with Saints by Marco Palmezzano of 1520.
- 5 Route of the donkeys. On the plateau below the hill of the fortifications, the ancient inhabitants of Brisighella, to obviate the narrowness of space, opened a real street in the curtain of the buildings, in practice a portico that ran through the entire town. Caravans of donkeys loaded with plaster, oil, wine, wool and silk for the markets of Venice and Florence passed along this covered road. On the same level as the portico were the stables, on the lower floors warehouses and cellars; the houses on the upper floors. Today only the central part of this characteristic covered street remains. There are rare examples of covered streets; in Italy another can be found, in perfect condition, a Morro d'Alba in the Ancona area, where it takes the name of The shoe, and is a covered walkway that runs all around the ancient fortified historic center.
- 6 Parish church of San Giovanni in Octavo (Pieve del Tho). As its name implies, it is located at the eighth mile from the Via Emilia, and is not far from Brisighella on the via Faventina. Named for the first time in a document of 909, it was the mother church of the 22 churches of the Lamone valley. Tradition has it that it was built on the remains of a temple of Jupiter Ammone, which seems likely given the large number of Roman finds that the area has given, as well as the numerous reuse of Roman material in the construction of the church itself. The current appearance is that achieved with the building interventions of 1572.
- The interior preserves beautiful works of art, including a terracotta from the Tuscan school of the first half of the 15th century, the Madonna of the Pomegranate; a Sienese crucifix from 1270; a sixth-seventh century sandstone frontal of Lombard art; statues and paintings by artists from Faenza.
Thermal baths
- 4 Thermal baths of Brisighella, viale delle Terme. The spa is located in the center of a natural park and uses sulphurous waters and salty-iodine waters which are beneficial in many chronic diseases of the respiratory tract such as rhinitis, sinusitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma and rhinogenic deafness . A specialist department is dedicated to the treatment of rhinogenic deafness and the treatment of respiratory affections in children.
Events and parties
- Medieval festivals.
First half of July.. In Brisighella they were among the first to focus on medieval costume parties, a tradition that has since taken hold in every part of Italy. The parties of Brisighella every year are inspired by a different one theme that animates the streets of the city attracting a large number of visitors.-->
First half of July.. In Brisighella they were among the first to focus on medieval costume parties, a tradition that has since taken hold in every part of Italy. The parties of Brisighella every year are inspired by a different one theme that animates the streets of the city attracting a large number of visitors.What to do
Shopping
The hills of the Lamone valley produce fine oil. The Brisighello is a cold extracted extra virgin olive oil. The other olive oil in the area is Nobil Drupa which is made from icicle olives and produced in limited quantities. Brisighella is part of theNational Association City of oil.
Other food excellences are the cured cheese which is aged in chalky cavities; the moretto artichoke, the volpina pear and the ancient pig breed of the Mora romagnola.
How to have fun
Where to eat
Average prices
- 1 La Grotta Restaurant, Via Antonio Metelli, 1, ☎ 39 0546 81488.
- 2 Cantina del Bonsignore restaurant, Via Recuperati, 4, ☎ 39 0546 81889.
- 3 Bruschetteria Torre Restaurant, via degli Asini.
- 4 Stryx restaurant, Piazza Marconi, 11, ☎ 39 339 7514815.
- 5 The Osteria di Guercinoro, Piazza Guglielmo Marconi, 7, ☎ 39 0546 80464.
- 6 The Osteria della Luna, Piazza Guglielmo Marconi, 3, ☎ 39 0546 80503.
- 7 [link not working]Osteria della Fonte, Via Naldi, 20, ☎ 39 347 2927042.
- 8 The kitchen of the soul, Vicolo Saletti, 2, ☎ 39 333 3169662.
Where stay
Average prices
- 1 Locanda La Cavallina, Via Masironi 8, ☎ 39 0546 80520. In an old post office from the 1800s, located in the ancient salt road that connected Florence to Cervia.
- 2 Bed and Wine, Via XXIV Maggio, 18, ☎ 39 333 2690514.
- 3 Tre Colli Hotel Restaurant, Via Antonio Gramsci, 9, ☎ 39 0546 81147.
- 4 La Meridiana hotel, Viale delle Terme, 19, ☎ 39 0546 81590. Three stars
- 5 [link not working]Valverde hotels, Via Lamone, ☎ 39 0546 85622.
- 6 La Meridiana hotel, Viale delle Terme, 19, ☎ 39 0546 81590.
Safety
Pharmacies
- 5 Zoffoli, Via Roma, 16, ☎ 39 0546 81242.
- 6 Ghinelli, Via Marzeno, 50 (in the locality of Marzeno), ☎ 39 0546 40192.
- 7 Ottaviani, Via Emiliani, 53 (in the locality of Fognano), ☎ 39 0546 850004.
- 8 San Cassiano, Via San Cassiano, 32 (in the locality of San Cassiano), ☎ 39 0546 86166.
How to keep in touch
Post office
- 9 Italian post, Via A. Maglioni, 3, ☎ 39 0546 85773.
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