Attractions and Places To See around Malalbergo - Top 20

Historic building overlooking the road connecting Bentivoglio to Castel Maggiore

Frabboni_ Privileged residence of the Marquis Carlo Alberto Pizzardi, Palazzo Rosso originally served as a manor house but also as the administrative headquarters of a large agricultural and proto-industrial company called "Tenuta Pizzardi". The building was built at the behest of Pizzardi between 1890 and 1893, based on a design by the municipal engineer of Bentivoglio Guido Lisi. ... Palazzo Rosso is an incredible residence, to be observed calmly and discovered little by little. The gaze runs and rests on its external walls, made of vermilion-coloured bricks, to linger on valuable decorative details and to perceive ever-new elements, in a game of discovery and amazement. The privileged point for contemplating the building is on the left bank of the Navile canal, immersed in nature and surrounded by beauty. From there the palace appears at the center of a suggestive and unreal postcard composition, which thanks to the perspective vision includes the mill building and the castle walls. In front of the observer, an evergreen magnolia rises majestically and only partially reveals the volume of the building, a building that rises on three floors and develops longitudinally. Behind the magnolia it is possible to observe the southern façade of the building, in which there is a window adorned with terracotta and preceded by an elegant double loggia that extends towards the canal. ... (Source: https://palazzorossobentivoglio.it/leditore/ )

The protected natural area of the Ex Risaia di Bentivoglio, also known by the name of Oasi La Rizza, is located in the northern part of the municipal territory and located in that part of the plain affected, in the recent past, by the cultivation of rice: the area of the former rice fields. Before the rice fields, in historical times, still in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the entire area was characterized by marshy land that flooded during the periodic flooding of the rivers, which were then poorly or not at all dammed. ... Once the rice farming activity ended, the agricultural landscape was replaced by dry crops such as wheat, beetroot, corn ... The nineties saw a small but substantial revolution in this monoculture landscape, thanks to the provision of community contributions in 1998 what was an anonymous triangle of fields was transformed into the natural area we know today, through environmental restoration interventions natural features typical of the plain. ... (Source: https://www.oasilarizza.it/it-it/oasi/rubriche/il-territorio-e-la-sua-storia-3181-1-7111ab2cdc775bb24e1c1cd44521fd51 )

Forty hectares of wetlands and woods where you can observe lots of birdlife. A perfect place for bird watching or fish watching. There is also a shed with glass under the water to observe the habitat. This can be the perfect place to stop. A restaurant-hostel is open on Saturday and Sunday.

Forty hectares of wetlands and woods where you can observe so much birdlife. A perfect place for bird watching or “fish watching.” There is also a shed with glass under the water to observe the habitat. This can be the perfect place to stop. A restaurant-hostel is open on Saturday and Sunday. https://www.oasilarizza.it/it-it/home#

Leisure residence of the Bolognese nobility, the Bentivoglio family had this castle built at the end of the 15th century. Well preserved, it retains its original structure and can be visited to admire the sixteenth-century frescoes.

Recreational and hunting lodge built towards the end of the 15th century by the Bentivoglio family, nobles from Bologna.

In the locality of Soverzano, near Minerbio, the castle of San Martino, also known as the Manzoli family, stands surrounded by a sparse grove. The structure saw its origins in the year 1411 when the Bolognese Knight Bartolomeo Manzoli wanted it to be built as an aristocratic residence around the ancient Ariosti tower, (which in turn had stood on the edge of the swamp since the thirteenth century). Although the manor was born as an aristocratic residence, it was equipped with military-type defenses, such as walls, battlements and moats. In fact, the castle has a rectangular plan with a spacious internal courtyard; at the four corners there are defensive towers and the defense aspect accentuated by the large moat that surrounds it, as well as by the drawbridges and the grandeur of the main tower. It served as a noble residence for a short time in 1500 (from 1514 to 1532) when Leo X granted Marchione Manzoli the jurisdiction of San Martino with the title of Count. The Castle was restored and decorated in the 1500s and 1600s, but the restoration work took place in 1883-85, when it was owned by the Cavazza Counts, by Alfonso Rubbiani and Tito Azzolini. The curtains and crenellated towers that characterize it give a decidedly fairytale aspect to the castle which is located in a centuries-old park.