From the Tidone Valley to the wild Boreca Valley

The 12th century Collegiate Church of St. John the Baptist has been elected national monument for the series of priceless artworks preserved there. Villa Braghieri-Albesani, built in the 18th century, was the holiday refuge of the Marquis Scotti from Castel Bosco; today it hosts the town library, the historical archive and the Ethnographic Museum of Val Tidone.

The fortress is in Piazza Garibaldi: it is an imposing, rectangular brick building, with two square towers, surrounded by a wide moat. It was built in the early 13th century, but its present look dates back to the 14th-15th century.
In Via Cavallotti there is the Romanesque Collegiate Church of St Maria Assunta, erected in the early 13th century and restored between the late 14th century and the early 15th century in the Lombard-Gothic style.

The Church of "S. Paolo Apostolo" where you can enjoy a fantastic masterpiece "Ascension" by Ulisse Sartini.

The well preserved Vicobarone castle of medieval origins, the San Rocco oratory built in 1625, the Peasant Society Museum are only few of the interesting building in this village. Not to mention the 19th century parish church dedicated to St. Columba, which hosts a canvas by Camillo Scaramazza, a famous painter from Parma province.

Nibbiano presents several attractions from the Genepreto village to the Malvicini Fontana Palace in Sala Mandelli, from the Castle and Oratory in Stadera and the ancient Tower of Torre Gandini to the Tassara Palace, up to the remains of the “castrum de durobecho”, today known as Trebecco a Corticelli (between Trevozzo and Nibbiano) where you can see the Castle that remains close to a medieval village with a church, houses and agricultural settlement that deserves an attentive analysis.
Worth of a visit is also the lovely Baroque Church of St. Mary of the Assumption in Trevozzo for its precious paintings, furniture and a splendid pipe organ sent by Busseto on which the composer Giuseppe Verdi studied.

Pecorara belonged to the Monastery of St Colombano from the Dark Ages to the 14th century.
The 15th-century Church of St Giorgio, in Pecorara, was rebuilt in 1792; the plaque on the façade commemorates the Cardinal Jacopo da Pecorara, born at Cicogni in the 12th century and renowned for his diplomatic role during the conflicts between the Popes and Frederick II of Swabia.
The Pecorara’s fortresses are hardly recognizable, because their towers were destroyed or lowered. At Montemartino the outside walls are still evident.

Traces of prehistoric settlement have been discovered at Cicogni. The name of the town is certainly bound up with the sheep-farming (“pecora” means sheep), even if today the main resource is agriculture.

Capannette di Pej or Capannette di Pey is a fraction of the Italian municipality of Zerba, in the province of Piacenza. It is located in Val Boreca on the slopes of Mount Chiappo, not far from the border with Piedmont and Lombardy. It is the highest inhabited center of the province of Piacenza and the westernmost of Emilia-Romagna.