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ARTISTIC ROUTES The route of Maestra of Saragozza or Francesca della Sambuca. This route suggests the most important route of Bologna’s western Apennines that, since the Etruscan and then Roman age, followed the Reno river, leaving Bologna at Porta Saragozza. In modern age the road was called "master of Saragozza", while the inhabitants of Pistoia already in medieval age called it Francesca, in order to indicate the way towards and from France. Leaving Casalecchio proceeding towards south and stopping at Pontecchio, with Pieve and the Abbey of Saint Stefano and the Hospital that accommodated the pilgrims, dedicated to Saint Nicolò, of which today only the Oratory remains, and to Sasso Marconi, where a chapel dedicated to Sant' Andrea was obtained from a cliff in 1283 in order to offer shelter to the passing pilgrims, although the numerous discovery of roman civilization lead to assume that the cut of the cliff was carried out the Roman themselves. In the area of Sasso Marconi it is possible to visit fascinating cultural locations, the Sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin of Sasso, centre of Sasso Marconi’s parish since 1882, the village of Colle Ameno, constructed between 1700 and the 1800 by Filippo Ghisileri as a laboratory of arts and trades, still today famous for the " ceramics of Colle Ameno ". At Marconi Pontecchio one can find the Palazzo Rossi, constructed at the end of the year 1400 by Bartolomeo Rossi on the shores of the Reno rivers, in late gothic style from Bologna and refined with decorative finishes. Of the year 1400 is also Sanuti Palace known as "Fontana", constructed by the laborious knight Nicolò Sanuti from Bologna and situated in the village that carries his name. Thanks to the poet and jurist Claudius Achillini, the Oratory of S. Apollonia was constructed in 1630, in recognition for surviving the plague. Claudius Achillini also builds in Sasso Marconi the Villa that carries his name, in which the poet composed his most famous works. Under the slopes of the Mount Mario, encircled by a great park, Albani Villa was constructed in the 17th century by a lawyer, Domenico Albani, brother of the better known painter Francesco. Two years before the takeover of the Bastille, in 1787 the Cadestellano Villa was constructed, where inside putties, decorations and paintings in Louis XVI style were discovered. On the second half of year 500 the Maranina Villa, in locality S. Lorenzo, belonged to the Colonna and Boncompagni family. We cannot forget, finally, the Cliff of Sasso, formed by a bradyseism millions of years ago that moved to todays position the sandstone stratifications and gravels conglomerated in a natural process, belonging to residual sea matter. In 1283 friar Giovanni da Panico named “Madonna del Sasso” a small sanctuary obtained from a cave. This was enlarged in 1477 by Nicolò Sanuti. Many contributed to the embellishment of the sanctuary, among these we remember the painter Andrea Donducci, also known as the “Mastelletta”. As a result of the drop of a large rock in 1787 the chapel was abandoned, the image of the Blessed Virgin was taken by a long procession to the oratory of Villa Ranuzzi.

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