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Day Trips Around Correggio, Emilia Romagna

First route: San Prospero - Budrio - Fazzano (14 Km of which 6 are gravel roads or minor roads). You left Correggio, go along the route of the old railway Reggio - Correggio and get to Cava Casanova (Casanova quarry: a thick wood being the shelter for the migratory birds).
You may continue on direction of San Prospero (farmhouse, church) and Budrio (church), reaching the naturalistic oasis of via (street) Imbreto (hedges, forest trees and full protected green belt). You may go back to Correggio through Fazzano (church, Davoli lodge, a row of elms).

Second route: Canolo - Fosdondo (10 Km of which 4 are gravel roads or minor roads ). By leaving Correggio you go along via (street) Carletti (hedges, parks of the Villas Paparelli and Recordati) and reach Canolo (church, castle).
From Canolo you may set out for Fosdondo (church). The road is bordered with British oaks. From Fosdondo, following the route of the old railway, you may reach Casanova quarry.

Third route: San Martino of Correggio - Mandrio - Mandriolo (8.5 Km of which 0.5 are gravel roads or minor roads). Once left Correggio in direction of San Martino of Correggio (Villa Roveri , Villa Sinigaglia ), on the road side you may see a boundary hedge (hazels,dogberries, black elders, blackthorns, whitethorns).
Once reached San Martino (church, the Villas Cattini, Saccozzi, Setti and Benassi ), you may visit the Museum of Folk Arts and Traditions, with a full collection of objects and pictures arranged in a farmhouse. Then you may go on to Mandrio (church, D. Pietri's house) and Mandriolo (church, court house, Villa Cottafavi , Gilocchi Lodge).

Fourth route: San Biagio (12 Km of which 3.5 are gravel roads or minor roads).
By leaving Correggio through via (street) Astrologo (hedges and old farmhouses), you may cover town roads, eighteenth-century bridges (country courts) and arrive at San Biagio (church, Villa Annamaria with a hazel front lane).

Fifth route: Fazzano - Lemizzone - San Martino in Rio (9 Km of which 4 are gravel roads or minor roads).
If you go along the new city park, you cross Cavo Argine and Ponte(bridge) Mandrio (San Bartolomeo oratory which is a memorial to the ancient hospital, having the same name, dated 1176) and reach Fazzano (church).
Once passed through the Terreni di Mezzo (Middle Lands;old borders of San Martino in Rio) and via (street) Vittoria (Casino Tirelli or "Corte di Lemizzone", with specimens of exotic plants), you reach San Martino in Rio.

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