The two fords of the country is (alla latina “duo vadora”) They gave the place its name, inhabited by the Celts and then the Romans. Traces of the Gallic settlement emerged with the discovery of a burial of warriors. The discovery of Roman tombs and coins minted in imperial times are also good witnesses of successive settlements. The “castrum”, that is the embryo of the country, However it would have been built by the Lombards at the turn of the seventh and eighth centuries AD.
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Dovàdola
Rocca San Casciano
Rocca San Casciano, was founded by the Etruscans, Gauls and the Romans under the name of Sassatica, at the confluence of river Montone and ditches Ridazzo and S. Antonio. According to legend, St Mercurial, first bishop of Forlì, and San Ruffillo they would meet in the upper right of the Montone Valley to chain a dragon (symbol of paganism) which infested the area. Bound him with their priestly robes, they would then thrown into a well.
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Premilcuore
Premilcuore is located on the right bank of the river Rabbi, between the two buttresses of Mount Falterona and Alpe di San Benedetto. A typical mountain village, it was from 1100 fief of the Guidi Counts until the advent of the Florentine Republic. The village can be accessed only by two gates, Porta di Sotto north, demolished in the past, and Porta Fiorentina in South, still exists, with the perfectly preserved medieval core, dominated by the ruins of the ancient fortress.
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San Benedetto in Alpe
San Benedetto in Alpe is located at the confluence of three streams, among which the famous Acquacheta that gives life to the beautiful homonymous waterfall. There is the age-old Benedictine Abbey, founded by the monks of Cluny, where he stopped in the eleventh San Romualdo before founding Camaldoli, for centuries the destination of pilgrimages and retreats. Via Dante Alighieri connects the country with the Poggio on which is located the abbey, and reminds the rest of Dante in the monastery.
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