Tizzano Val Parma - Tizzano Val Parma

Tizzano Val Parma is a center ofEmilia Romagna.

To know

Summer resort and winter sports center in the ski resort of Schia.

Geographical notes

It is located in the Parma Apennines in Val Parma; is 40 km away. from Parma

Background

Tizzano was on the border between the territory of the Ligurians and that of the Gauls. Its foundation dates back to the Roman general Tito Cornelio Balbo who, having defeated the Gauls, founded the town that would take its name from him; he was also responsible for the road that crosses Monte Caio to Corniglio. Tizzano appears in the documents in 991 in a deed of sale.

Located in a non-inaccessible area, the town was subject to various lords who succeeded in possession of the fiefdom: from the Emperor to the da Correggio, from the Pallavicino to the Terzi, from the Fieschi to the Farnese, lastly to the Venturi, after which the feudalism. The thirteenth-century castle has left only some deteriorated ruins; its ruin, which began in the nineteenth century, was brought to an end by the abandonment and by the earthquakes that have affected the area several times.

Tizzano was crossed for a long time by the pilgrimage route, and also by trade, which from Capoponte to Albazzano, the Pieve di Costa, Mount Caio, Linari then descended towards the Tuscan valleys as far as the Ligurian Sea.

From the Unification to the Second World War the territory was hit by the phenomenon of emigration, characteristic of almost all the Apennine valleys. The Tizzanesi were employed abroad, especially in France, Corsica and Switzerland, as woodcutters in the winter. Until the 1960s, the evolution of cattle breeding allowed the development of the production of Parmigiano cheese; at the same time the factories for the curing of the hams are set up.

To this flourishing of productive activities is added the birth of summer holiday tourism, in more recent years also winter sports tourism with the development of the town of Schia on the slopes of Monte Caio, a first-rate ski resort in the Apennine arc of the region.

It is administratively part of the Comunità Montana Unione dei Comuni Parma Est [1] which includes the centers of Calestano, Corniglio, Langhirano (administrative headquarters), Lesignano de 'Bagni, Monchio delle Corti, Neviano degli Arduini, Palanzano, Tizzano Val Parma.

The legend

It is said that on a hilltop of Monte Rotondo there was a castle (of which some ruins remain); digging among these a burning ember was found. It is for this reason that in the coat of arms of the municipality appears a right hand holding a lit ember.

How to orient yourself

Neighborhoods

The following inhabited centers are also located in the territory of Tizzano: Albazzano, Antognola, Anzolla, Boschetto, Capoponte, Capriglio, Carobbio, Carpaneto, Casagalvana, Casale di Vezzano, Casola, Costa, Fontanafredda, Groppizioso, Groppo, Isola, Lagrimone, Madurera, Moragnano, Musiara Inferiore, Musiara Superiore, Pianestola, Pietta, Pratolungo, Reno, Rusino, Schia, Treviglio.

How to get

By plane

• 44.821810.296031 Parma airport (G. Verdi), Via Emilia - Golese locality, ☎ 39 0521 951511, fax: 39 0521 980394, @[email protected]. 
• 44.5352811.291162 Bologna airport (G.Marconi), Via Triumvirato 84, ☎ 39 051 6479615. 

By car

• Parma toll booth on the Autostrada del Sole
• State Road 665 Massese

On the train

• Station in Parma

By bus

• Bus connections with Parma - TEP Lines (timetables)

How to get around

What see

• Parish church of San Pietro (sec. XI-XVIII). Already documented in 1004, the parish church of San Pietro was certainly built in the previous century. It was rebuilt between the late 1000s and early 1900s with a three-nave structure, each ending in a semicircular apse and trussed roof, in the style of the Parmesan parish churches of the time. Today we can recognize the cylindrical stone pillars, the lateral portal with geometric decorations and the cross in the center of the archivolt as well as the trinavata structure of this remaking.

In the second half of the eighteenth century heavily intervened in the structure of the building covering the central nave with a masonry ceiling, substituting a square presbytery for the semicircular apse, flanking two sacristies. The portal of the facade was also redone in 1788.

A 1964 restoration eliminated the vaulted roof and eighteenth-century plasters, restoring a more legible Romanesque appearance to the Pieve, also highlighting traces of the fifteenth-century frescoes that decorated it.

Its location on an isolated hill overlooking the valley makes it particularly suggestive; the massive tower on the façade, which functions as a bell tower and access, contributes to creating the atmosphere of other times. 

In Moragnano

• Church of Santa Giuliana (sec. XII-XVII). In the thirteenth century it is documented as dependent on the Pieve di Stone. Its original structure was very simple, consisting of the hall and the semicircular apse. In the following centuries it was affected by various extension works; in the 16th century a portico was added to it as a shelter for pilgrims and wayfarers; in the following century the side chapels and the bell tower; finally the rectory.

The apse is the oldest part of the church; on the outside it has decorative hanging arches, a high base and two columns in relief; inside, a splayed single lancet window opens in the smooth wall. The hall differs from the apse for its seventeenth-century lines, with a barrel vault, pilasters and cornices. On the right there are two chapels and one on the left.

Both inside and outside the apse there are numerous engravings which are a particular feature of the church. The oldest ones, dated between the 12th and 14th centuries, represent sacred symbols that can be traced back to the tradition of rock art; the later ones of the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries are written of a funerary or chronicle nature for particular meteorological events or collective misfortunes such as famines or epidemics. 

Villages

Among the numerous villages in the territory of Tizzano there are examples of ancient civil and religious mountain architecture that can be the object of a quick glance by those looking for atmospheres and suggestions of the past:

• Carpaneto (m. 592 of altitude) has a tower house seventeenth century
• Albazzano (m. 478) preserves eighteenth-century buildings such as the bell tower and the church where there is a fresco by Madoi.
• Pietta (m. 526) has many houses with precious lithic architectural elements.
• Pianestola (850 m) has houses all in stone; retains a stretch of paved road called road of Maria Luigia which was used for the movement of the ducal troops.
• Rusino, all in local stone, it has a Belvedere Tower in ruins wanted in the fifteenth century by the Terzi.
• Anzolla, (d. 713) has a small seventeenth-century church.
• Reno (m. 477) has a small eighteenth-century stone church with a bell tower. It preserves a rare example of an intact 1300 house.
• Casola (m. 642) has a still functioning water mill. In the church there is an altarpiece from the sixteenth century.
• Carobbio(700 m), with a history dotted with landslides and subsequent reconstructions, it has an eighteenth-century church.
• Lower musiara in the seventeenth-century church there is a painting of San Giorgio, an altar from the eighteenth century and a bronze cross from the sixteenth century.
• Lower musiara (m.1050) has a stone house of the sixteenth century. In the church there is an altarpiece of San Rocco dello Scaramuzza, an eighteenth-century papier-mâché San Rocco and a seventeenth-century stoup.

Events and parties

What to do

Skiing activity a Schia , equipped with slopes and ski lifts.[2]

• PLANTS DETAIL

Lift facilities: 7 ski lifts

Transport capacity: 5500 people per hour

Downhill slopes: 13 (25 km)

Cross-country ski tracks: 1 loop (2 km)

Ski school - Cross country school

Lifts: Schia school area (ski lift and moving walkway) Pian delle guide (chairlift) Prato grosso 2 (ski lift)

N ° and lengths: 1 School camp 350 m. 2 Guerdola 2000 m. 3 Hours 1 ° 1850 m. 4 Hours 2 ° 1650 m. 5 Schia school field 300 m. 6 Bad weather 2100 m. 7 Montelungo 1600 m. 8 Parmossino ( G) 1000 mt. 9 Varmania 1250 mt. 10 Prato grosso 1700 mt. 11 Le Marne 2100 mt. 12 Prato dei pomi 1250 mt. 13 Chestnut 1250 mt. 14 Pilano 1300 mt. 15 San Matteo 2500 mt.

Slope equipped for free style practitioners (Caio riders or Fisi members) in Pian delle Guide. The snow park has three courses with different levels of difficulty. Cross-country track.

Shopping

Surely it is the gastronomic excellences that monopolize the interest of the visitor to Tizzano: Parma raw ham, porcini mushrooms, Parmesan cheese, herb and ricotta tortelli, potato tortelli as well as various types of desserts.

A typical excellence of the Tizzanese territory is the potato from Rusino well known for its organoleptic qualities.

How to have fun

Where to eat

• Trattoria Pini, locality Rusino (in Rusino - Lagrimone), ☎ 39 0521 866900. 
• Trattoria Rossi, Location Carobbio 32, ☎ 39 0521 868518. 
• Schia Refuge, piazzale Bocchi 6, ☎ 39 0521 868181. 

Where stay

• Miramonti, Piazzale Bocchi 64, ☎ 39 0521 860231, fax: 39 0521 860231. 

Safety

How to keep in touch

Post office

• Italian post, piazza Roma 11, ☎ 39 0521 867163, fax: 39 0521 868844. 

Around

• Torrechiara - The castle, beautiful and scenographic, is one of the most famous and celebrated among the many Parma manors and perhaps the most famous among the many that Pier Maria Rossi had built for Bianca Pellegrini. Less celebrated, but no less important, is the Benedictine Abbey.
• Corniglio

Itineraries

• Castles of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza - Scattered over the Parma and Piacenza Apennines, but also present in the plain to guard the natural border of the Po, the numerous castles of the ancient Duchy of Parma and Piacenza characterize the whole area. Originally military bulwarks, many of them have kept the appearance of an inaccessible fortress, many have gradually transformed their war nature into a refined noble residence; all perpetuate over time the atmosphere of adventure, fairytale and legend that has always been linked to castles, many of which tell of the presence of spirits and ghosts.

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