Propriety: Commune of Zocca
Management: Regional Park of Sassi di Roccamalatina
Director: Giuliano Monzali
Opening time: sunday and holidays since Easter to the first sunday of November.
Morningtime: 10 – 12 a.m.
eveningtime: 3 - 7 p.m.
During the week it is opened for groups or schoolgroups (€ 1,00 per people) by booking
Entry - Adult € 2,50
Boys until 14 years € 1,00
groups € 1,00 per people
The "Parco" ticket allows you to visit the Museum of Tigella in Samone, the permanent show of the Park environment by the "Fontanazzo Centro Parco" and to go up on the Sasso della Croce (Cross Stone).
Duration of visit: 1 hour.
The document Centre "MUSEO DEL CASTAGNO” was created in 2000 by the Hospital San Giacomo di Zocca (MO).
As a not so casual place the San Giacomo mountain and its Hospital have written the history of those lands and still nowadays
the chestnut wood that is preserved there is one of the most beautiful of the area.
The Hospital that shows the museum on the ground floor has ancient origins and it is quoted for the first time in a document dated of 1186.
The museum made of three rooms shows the story of chestnut by means of the object linked to it, by describing in the two side rooms
instruments for the care of chestnut wood and for the working of products; while in the central hall, a series of tables show you
to the features of that tree, its national, European and world distribution, the diseases etc...
A corner inside that hall is used to recreate the habitat of chestnut wood and it is called "the Fantacastagneto", with the plants, the animals and the footprints.
There every boy can "touch by their hands" the animals and discover their own features.
A part of the museum is dedicated to local traditional food: the Borlengo.
The Borlengo is a food that is part of the culture and tradition of the Panaro Valley; it is dated back to ancient periods and
it is included in that landscape of breads known eversince the prehistorical eve.
In front of the Museum of Chestnut tree the Museum-laboratory of Borlengo is placed in two halls.
Another hall is dedicated to the show side. Ancient pans for cooking borlenghi, objects linked to the culture and peasant tradition
alternate to several tables that show where, how that tasty traditional food is prepared.
In the other room there is the laboratory to teach how to prepare the Borlengo. Periodically many classes are activated for that purpose.
Whoever is interested can send an e-mail and he will be called as the class begins.