Sestola, about seventy kilometers from Modena, is Emilia-Romagna’s most important winter tourist resort and is also known for its beautiful medieval castle.
Modenese Apennine
Fanano is a very well-known tourist town in the Upper Frignano district of the Modena Apennines. About 65 kilometres from Modena, it nestles among some of the highest peaks in the entire northern-central Apennines (Cimone, Libro Aperto and Mount Spigolino) and is the main gateway to the Alto Appennino Modenese Park.
Pavullo nel Frignano lies about 40 kilometres from Modena: halfway up the mountainside, it is the biggest, most important town in our Apennines, and the main town in the Modena Frignano district. It owes its name to the nearby marshland or “palude” in Italian, here called “paule”.
Located on the Strada delle Radici, twenty-three kilometers from Radici Pass and about sixty-one from Modena, Frassinoro is a small village in the Upper Valley of the Secchia River near where the Modena Apennines meet the Province of Tuscany.
Located 35 kilometres from Modena in the Frignano mountains, Serramazzoni is a charming tourist town on the lower slopes of the mountains, surrounded by nature and full of historic sights.
About 64 kilometres from Modena, Montecreto stands on a hill overlooking the valley of the River Scoltenna. It stretches out along the right hand side of this valley up to the Rondinara, Cavrile, and Cervarola mountains.
About forty minutes south of Modena, in the foothills on the right side of the Panaro River, Guiglia is an important summer tourist destination with a beautiful castle at its heart.
Montese is an important summer tourist town in the Modena Apennines, located less than 60 kilometres from our main city and surrounded by groves of chestnut and beech trees.
Nestled on the left bank of the Panaro River about thirty kilometers from Modena, Marano sul Panaro is a small town whose history and existence are deeply connected to the river. During the entire 20th century, in fact, the Panaro’s waters turned the mills’ grindstones and, in a later development, produced electricity.
Fiumalbo is a famous tourist town in the Upper Frignano district, awarded an Orange Flag by the Touring Club Italia. It is located on the border with Tuscany, some 75 kilometres from Modena, where the Acquicciola and delle Pozze streams converge to form the River Scoltenna.
The important tourist town of Pievepelago lies in the heart of the Upper Modena Apennine Regional Park, on the border with Tuscany and about 70 kilometres from Modena.
Palagano, nestled in the enchanting Dragone Valley, is a pleasant tourist stop in the Upper Secchia Valley. The town is less than an hour by car from Modena (roughly fifty-seven kilometers).
Polinago is a pretty little town in the Modena Apennines. Right tin the heart of the Frignano district in Val Rossenna, about 37 kilometres from Modena, it enjoys a sunny open position with views of Mount Cimone.
Located on a flank of Mount Predazzo about thirty kilometers from Modena, Prignano sul Secchia is known for its long and turbulent history.
56 kilometres outside Modena, Montefiorino, the main town in the Upper Secchia Valley, sits in beautiful natural surroundings dominated by the peaks of Mount Cimone and Mount Cusna. Its imposing fortress is the town’s symbolic monument, today as in its glorious past.
More than 55 kilometres from Modena, Lama is a nice little town in the heart of the Frignano district through which the old Via Vandelli runs. Its name comes from the Italian “lama”, an area of stagnant water.
Birthplace of Italian rock legend Vasco Rossi, Zocca lies roughly thirty kilometers from Modena on the eastern side of the mountain that divides the Panaro River Valley from the Reno and Samoggia Valleys.
To the south of Bologna and about seventy kilometres from Modena, in the heart of the upper Frignano district, Riolunato is an important tourist town in our Apennines.