§ Stones of History §
The "Stones of History" are ideal reference points: fixed milestones on the road of time. But they are also material objects designed to tell the history of Monghidoro.
These are true works of art designed by Giordano Berti along with designer Letizia Rivetti and illustrated by Severino Baraldi
The illustrations, that highlight significant events that occured since the town foundation, are transfered on slabs of stone and fixed permanently around squares and alleys of Monghidoro. Those events are listed on this page.
Chonologic index
○ 1100 AD : FROM MONS GOTHORUM TO MONGHIDORO
10.08.2013 00:51
§ On the origin of Monghidoro §
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, around the 7th, 8th century AD, hordes of barbarian peoples (primarily Ostrogoths and Langobards) and...
○ 1200 AD : THE ROAD TO FLORENCE
10.08.2013 01:14
§ On the origins of the Futa Road §
"In every part of the world there are roads that people have used for hundreds or even thousands of years, and then they are abandoned. The two most...
○ 1246 AD : THE CASTLE OF SCARICALASINO
10.08.2013 01:27
§ Birth of a fortified village §
Various historians have presumed that around the VII century AD a Germanic tribe belonging to the Goths, settled in a strategic...
○ 1260 AD : THE CASTLE OF VERGIANO
21.07.2015 19:22
§ Vergiano, from its origins to today §
Vergiano is one of the oldest and characteristic villages of the Savena Valley. According to some scholars, the first nucleus was built around the 7th...
○ 1511-1515 AD: THE VISITS OF POPE LEO X
10.08.2013 01:42
§ On the relations between Pope Leo X and the soldier Armaciotto §
In Monghidoro there is a little square dedicated to Pope Leo X, who stayed in Scaricalasino several times as a...
○ 1528 AD: THE ABBEY OF ST. MICHAEL IN ALPES
10.08.2013 02:05
§ A short history of the Abbey of Scaricalasino §
In 1528, the Soldier of Fortune Ramazzotto da Scaricalasino, better known as Armaciotto dei Ramazzotti (Monghidoro 1464 – Pietramala 1539), gave orders...
○ 1592 AD: THE GREAT FAIR OF ST. MICHAEL
10.08.2013 09:57
§ The birth of St. Michael's Fair in Monghidoro §
On August 1, 1592 the Papal Curia granted the abbot Lodovico da Bologna permission...
○ 1685 : THE SANCTUARY OF MADONNA DEI BOSCHI
10.08.2013 10:59○ 1734 : THE DUKE CHARLES OF BOURBON
10.08.2013 11:00
§ The passage of Charles de Bourbon, Duke of Parma and Piacenza, the future King of Spain §
October 5, 1732. Charles the Fisrt, Duke of Parma, stopped in Scaricalasino. As heir presumptive...
○ 1739 : MARIA THERESA OF AUSTRIA
10.08.2013 11:01
§ The heirs to the Holy Roman Empire in Scaraicalasino §
On a frosty and windy winter night, in January, 19 1739, Francis Stephen, Duke of Lorraine (Nancy 1708 – Innsbruck 1765) and his...
○ 1751 : THE MIRACLE OF ST. LEONARDO DA PORTO MAURIZIO
10.08.2013 11:05○ 1761 : THE "HOT NIGHT" OF CASANOVA IN SCARICALASINO
10.08.2013 11:30○ 1770 : THE ENGLISH POETESS ANNA RIGGS-MILLER
28.03.2015 14:50○ 1776 : THE MARQUIS DE SADE
10.08.2013 11:34○ 1794 : THE CAPTIVITY OF PATRIOT LUIGI ZAMBONI
10.08.2013 11:45○ 1799 : THE PAPAL NEW CUSTOM-HOUSE IN SCARICALASINO
10.08.2013 11:47○ 1804 : THE STOPS OF POPE PIUS VII
10.08.2013 11:50○ 1809 : THE RIOT OF THE SMUGGLERS
10.08.2013 11:52○ 1857 POPE PIUS IX IN MONGHIDORO
10.08.2013 11:53○ 1860 : THE BANDIT "SPIRIT"
10.08.2013 11:54○ 1860 : THE KING VITTORIO EMANUELE II
10.08.2013 11:53○ 1900 : THE BEGINNING OF MIGRATION
10.08.2013 11:56
§ The abandonment of the mountains §
After the Second World War the town of Monghidoro and its surrounding areas started to depopulate as hundreds of people migrated in both the...
○ 1923 : A LITTLE LOURDES NEAR MONGHIDORO
10.08.2013 11:57
§ The history of the Sanctuary in Campeggio §
○ 1927 : THE LEGENDARY "MILLE MIGLIA" CAR RACE
10.08.2013 12:26
§ History of the "Mille Miglia" and the pilots that drove through Monghidoro §
○ 1934 : BENITO MUSSOLINI IN MONGHIDORO
10.08.2013 12:31○ 1944 : ANTI-FASCIST REBELS AND OTHER VICTIMS OF NAZIS
17.09.2014 14:25
§ Shooting of the "Barberin" by Nazis §
During the Second World War, the Northern Italian theatre saw the Nazi-Fascist army adopt a retreating strategy to delay the advance of the...
○ 1944 : LIBERATION OF MONGHIDORO BY ANGLO-AMERICAN ARMY
10.08.2013 12:32
§ The battle of Monghidoro §
During the Second World War, 1944 was a crucial moment for Italy. On August 25, the Anglo-American and free Polish armies launched a massive attack along the...