VISITNONANTOLA - Partecipanza Agraria

The torrazzuolo

Nearing Nonantola or from the centre of the town it is possible to see the signs that guide towards the area of reforestation know as “Torrazzuolo” which can be reached from different directions.

Of the approximately 70 hectares of protected land, 33 are occupied by wetlands, generated from natural, spontaneouse swamps and enriched by Woods growing in flatlands, tree-lined enclosures, between the ditch to the right of the Fossa Bosca and the ditch to the left of the Canale Torbido, on the area of the Partecipanza Agraria Nonantolana, called Valle di Sotto, which includes a lake of 7,5 hectares.

Since 1984, an animal oasis of grat natural interest has been administered by the LIPU of Modena.

Starting from 1991 the typical plants of the Medieval wood have been bedded: over 10.000 oaks, once extremely important because the acorns were fed to pigs which lived in a natural state; 9.502 ash trees, 8143 maple trees, 3158 wild cherry trees, 2435 willows, 2127 White poplars, 1513 hornbeams, 1445 black poplars and 200 alders, and a long hedge that follows via Due Torrioni.

This natural environment has encouraged the return of many animal species, especially birds, which, according to a census, taken about ten years ago, amounted to 172 different species: the garganey ducks (anas querquedula), the teal, the common wild duck, the dirds of the ardeidae family such as the purple heron, the great White egret and the black-crowned heron, the limicolous species such as the buzzard, the kestrel, the hen harrier, the marsh harrier, and then the little grede, the kingfischer, the water rail and Others like pheasants, sparrows, crows, swallows, thrusches, robins redbreast, pigeons, partridges, golfinches, falcons, wild, ducks, heron and diving dird.

The natural reserve has been furnisched with two sheds for bird watching, a station for ringing birds, working for the Istituto Nazionale Fauna Selvatica, while the volunteers of the LIPU, besides taking care of the maintenance of the area, are available for visitors, leading them in guided excursions or along itineraries that illustrate the importance of environmental education.

The reserve/oasis is open for visits every Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday, with free entrance to the observation shacks, while on other days booking is required.

Buses are allowed to park near the reserve, in a place called Ponte Sant’Anselmo, and visitors can stop for picnics in the nearby courtyard of the Casa della Prtecipanza (contact the Centro Educazione Ambientale del Comune di Nonantola)

Partecipanza Agraria di Nonantola

Via Roma, 21 – Nonantola (Mo)

Orari: giovedì e sabato ore 9.30-12.30.

Ingresso: gratuito.

Telefono: 059 549 046

www.partecipanzanonantola.it

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The “Partecipanza Agraria” of Nonantola

I terreni della Partecipanza Agraria di Nonantola

The “ Partecipanza Agraria” of Nonantola was established in 1058 throught the perpetual concession of woods, pastures and marshes that the Abbot Gotescalco granted to all the inhabitants of the village. Nowadays, this particular collective administration of plots of land, still assigned to the native “Nonantolani”, is composed of 765 hectars of agricultural land, of which 70 hectars are used as natural oasis ( woods and wetland area) in the north-east of the village.

The “Partecipanza Agraria” has its main hub in the old town of Nonantola city, in an important complex built in the northweast rampart of the ancient village walls, :the “Old Residence”, where the Community of Nonantola was born, and the “ New Residence” that looks out over the so called “Roma Street”; it has a 18^th-19^th Century architecture , a probable renewal of a previous era building, maybe dated 14^th-15^th century.

The main façade of the New Residence is characterized by a large round arch entrance that introduces in the transit hall and in the inner courtyard.

The entrance leads to the garden, that proceeds from the old moats of the castle.

The Partecipanza Palace is so composed:

SALA DEI GIURISTI ( Jurists hall): the ancient hall of the Community Audience Chamber and the current Council Hall of the Partecipanza, with a valuable painted cealing decorated by Mr. Bigoni, a Modenese painter of the 19^th century;
ARCHIVIO STORICO, the important Hystorical Archive that preserves all the documents of the “Ente” since 1850 up to the present day, and many different maps of the XIX century that witness the evolution of the agricultural landscape;
The permanent exhibition that shows the story of the Partecipanza Agraria on explanatory panels divided for contents;
The Acetaia with three series of barrels, offered by the “Partecipanti” and citizens of Nonantola for a didactic purpose as the vinegar that is kept inside.

visit nonantola Partecipanza 00003 Fotografia aerea del territorio di Nonantola. Evidenziati in verde i terreni della Partecipanza Agraria

visit nonantola gotescalco 00002 Ricostruzione delle fortificazioni volute dall’abate Gotescalco. Museo di Nonantola

Partecipanza Agraria di Nonantola

Via Roma, 21 – Nonantola (Mo)

Orari: giovedì e sabato ore 9.30-12.30.

Ingresso: gratuito.

Telefono: 059 549 046