The village is located in the highest stretch of the Dolo valley, it is the last inhabited center that precedes some of the most interesting areas of woods and high-altitude prairies of the Reggio Emilia ridge: the Abetina Reale, Monte Prado, Mount Cusna.
Located to the left of the Dolo stream, it is one of the most interesting Apennine settlements of Reggio Emilia, an ancient hospitale along the historic route that through the Forbici pass, that of the Roots and San Pellegrino in Alpe, led to Garfagnana and Lucca.
The different landscapes ranging from the crops around the village, to the dense forests to the moors of the ridge make the place interesting even to the first travelers.
Civago hosts the first holidaymakers since the 20s of this century and is a place known and appreciated by mountain lovers (Alessandro Brian in his “Guide of the Reggio Apennines” of 1929 dedicates numerous pages to Civago).
If until the 60s those who lived in the village were shepherds and lumberjacks, later the country suddenly abandoned these traditional activities to devote themselves, for the most part, to the construction of second homes.
In 1963 “Appenninia” was built: one of the first ski resorts in the Reggio Apennines.
There are three hotels in the village, many second homes and some guest houses. Even today the landscape is rich in vegetation from centuries-old chestnut groves to beech forests.
It is the privileged starting point for numerous excursions to the aforementioned Abetina Reale, M.te Prado, M.te Cusna, p.sso Forbici and M.te Giovarello and to reach the alpine refuges “Segheria” and “Battisti”.
In the village there is the Visitor Center of the Parco del Gigante themed on the geo-botany of the Upper Reggio Apennines, open to the public is also an information center.
