One of the most important tourist centers of the Reggio Apennines, capital of the Municipality of Ventasso.
It has hotels, a large and modern campsite, swimming pool and recreational facilities.
The mountain resort – part of the Municipality of Busana – is known for hosting a spa, the only one in the province of Reggio Emilia, equipped for hydrotherapy treatments.
At the Fonti park, one kilometer from the town, the mineral waters of Mount Ventasso gush out.
In the district of Cervarezza there is also the Flora park, a protected area of 55 hectares that at an average altitude of 900-950 m occupies the northern slope of Mount Campastrino, in the basin of the Rio Maore (tributary of the Enza). There are vegetation and fauna elements of great value, typical of the Apennine environment.
From Cervarezza branch off numerous CAI paths, including a path with which you can directly reach the top of Mount Ventasso (m 1727) and the nearby Calamone lake.
History:
It dates back to the ninth century to find the “Monte Cervario”, the name of a territory bordering what is now called Cervarezza. The latter name, which, from medieval Latin, indicates “place of the deer”, officially appears as such at least since 1106. While the first written testimony of the existence of a chapel dates back to 1153. Cervarezza is at the center of civil disputes (between the families who had settled in the valley – Dalli, Vallisneri – and the Municipality of Reggio) and ecclesiastical (archpriest of Campiliola and rector of Busana).
At 1315 it had about 200 inhabitants and was catalogued together with Busana, with which it shared a single municipal organization. In 1387 the Dalli acquired the right of patronage on the oratory of S. Maria Maddalena, resulting also masters of Lake Ventasso: their conditioning on the life of Cervarezza, which has its traditional mountain pastures on the Ventasso is evident.
Later, starting from the fifteenth century, the Este domination was gradually imposed. Cervarezza then followed the events of Busana, until, in the Napoleonic period, for a few years it was constituted an autonomous municipality, within the district of Castelnovo. Just outside the village, at the intersection of the deviation for Ramiseto, there are the ruins of a small fort built in the nineteenth century by Duke Francesco IV. (G. Giovanelli, 1993).
