Entering Emilia, after crossing the Po, you can go up the valley touching the inhabited centers until you get along Lake Trebecco, as a border point. The Val Tidone state road naturally brings us into contact with the landscape that gradually differentiates, accompanies us to leave the chaos of the city, reaching the quiet of rolling hills that open up like an unexpected surprise between farmhouses immersed in vineyards, woods and paths.

Here autumn ignites the vines, summer explodes in its earth tones and winter silently embraces the smoking roofs and then recolors in spring. Val Tidone is a land where every season has vigor and intensity.

Land of Wine

Val Tidone is a territory with a high viticultural vocation, carried out with wisdom and experience, since the times of the ancient Romans, as can be perceived along the scenic roads, walking through the vineyards and visiting the numerous wineries in the area. It is a Land of Wine, which is home to the most vineyard town in Italy, Ziano Piacentino, and where excellent wines typical of the Colli Piacentini are produced.

Molato Dam (Lake Trebecco)

In a splendid natural setting, at the foot of Monte Bissolo, you can visit a grandiose work of hydraulic engineering in Art Nouveau style, as evidenced by renovated architectural details and the visitable guard building. The grandeur of the work, begun in 1921 and completed in 1928, was inaugurated by the Head of Government of the time, Benito Mussolini. From this barrier, 500 meters long and 180 meters high, comes the artificial lake of Molato, originally called Lake Trebecco, which can be crossed on foot, by bike or on horseback thanks to the Sentiero del Tidone.

Villages, Castles and Mills

Val Tidone is a land rich in history. Once part of the territory of the ancient Duchy of Parma and Piacenza, Val Tidone is still characterized by numerous castles, imposing complexes that dominate the surrounding landscapes, of different sizes and characteristics based on their original strategic positioning. Some of them, which have become private residences, host ceremonies and events, others are open to the public and can be visited during the opening periods. Walking through the characteristic medieval villages can only surprise the state of conservation of these small towns still inhabited, immersed in a panoramic context able to create a suspended atmosphere that gives travelers the scent of history. Along the bed of Tidone, together with the historic Mill of Lentino, numerous mills speak of a long history made of work, tradition, growth and development of its people.