The beauties of the Apennines

Time has stopped

Portico was built along the road to Florence in ancient times, already famous in Roman times as a place for markets and then as a castle belonging to the Counts Guidi of Dovadola.

End from 1386 Fiorentina Republic chose Portico as the capital of its territories Romagna.

The country It preserves almost fully the medieval, divided into three floors: the top of the castle and the church; the intermediate with the main buildings of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that hosted Romagna and Tuscan nobles who sheltered here due to political struggles, and finally the bottom with the houses of craftsmen and plebeian.

The Church of the Company a painting on wood attributed to the painter Lorenzo di Credi (1465-1537).

Stunning is the view of the village from the Majesty Bridge, humpbacked, of single arch over the river Montone.

Portico di Romagna

The journey of Dante

Bocconi It is a highly attractive place, made special by the charming Brusia Bridge (eighteenth century), humpbacked three arches. From here several paths, all very beautiful and to discover. To be seen, Portico di Romagna:

Church of the Company
The village
The medieval tower
Palazzo Mazzoni
Palazzo Portinari
The Clock Tower
Palazzo Traversari
Church of the Company
Via Borgo al Ponte
the Majesty Bridge
vineyard Towers

The Pieve di Santa Maria in Girone is open by appointment, tel. 0543 967231.

The love between Dante and Beatrice

According to their tradition in Portico di Romagna, in this picturesque village in the Apennines where stands one of the palaces of Beatrice Portinari family, Love blossomed between Dante and Beatrice.

[…] They enter the radii of these beautiful eyes
it 'my love,

and sweet rin wherever I feel bitter;
and they know the journey, even as those
that there are already past,
and they know the spot where Amor bequeathed,
when to my eyes in MENARO:
for that merzé, volgendosi, me make,
and the one which I am seek for damages
celandosi of me, then so much the love
Which for her serve I tegno […]

(Rhyme, “I feel so much Love's the puissance”)