Portico e San Benedetto
Portico e San Benedetto is a comune in the province of Forlì-Cesena, in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, located about southeast of Bologna.
It is formed by three main distinct settlements:
- Portico di Romagna, from Forlì
- San Benedetto in Alpe, from Forlì
- Bocconi, midway the two former localities
Main sights
In Bocconi:- Ponte della Brusia, an 18th-century three arch bridge
- Palazzo Portinari, which, according to tradition, belonged to Folco Portinari's large, extensive family, father of the Beatrice Portinari described by Dante Alighieri
- Palazzo Traversari. The theologian Ambrogio Traversari was born here.
- Ponte della Maestà
- Acquacheta water fall on the river of the same name, also described by Dante Alighieri in his Divine Comedy
- Monastery of St. Benedict, of medieval origins