GRIZZANA MORANDI

Grizzana Morandi, a mountain resort in the province of Bologna, is home to suggestive naturalistic settings and sites of historical and artistic interest.
Situated on the ridge between the valleys of the River Rhine and the Setta River, it is enclosed north and south by two parks: Montovolo Provincial Park, habitat of a wide variety of animal and vegetable species, and the 
Parco Storico Regionale di Monte Sole, (Regional Historic Park of Monte Sole) , theater of an equally rich biodiversity, but also of the sad event recalled as the Slaughter of Monte Sole in 1944.

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The village of Grizzana Morandi is famous for two important personalities, such as the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto and Giorgio Morandi, one of the greatest painters and engravers of the twentieth century.
Grizzana Morandi still hosts the holiday home of the homonymous painter, where the studio, the library and the artist's bedroom are kept intact.
In addition to the Church of S. Maria Assunta di Riola, the only Italian opera by Alvar Aalto, a nod is reserved for the Church of St. John the Baptist: for years she has kept the "Madonna with the Child" of Lorenzo Monaco, currently restored and on display at the Pinacoteca di Bologna.
La Scola is a beautiful fortified village, maintained in its entirety until today, which was built as a military quarter and a defense place in Montovolo's monastic center; here is to visit the Sanctuary with the church that was built before 1000 on a previous Etruscan temple.