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Extract from the Vignola and Zocca Travel Guides:
VIGNOLA
produces some of the best cherries in Italy and is an impressive sight in April, when it is surrounded by blossom and people come from all around for the spring festival. At other times Vignola is worth a visit for its castle, the
Rocca di Vignola
(Tues-Fri 9am-noon & 3.30-7pm, Sat & Sun 10am-noon & 3.30-7pm; free), which is particularly well preserved; one of many castles built in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to defend the crossings along the River Panaro into the neighbouring state of Bologna. It is a mammoth specimen, with enormous watchtowers on each corner, and fancy brickwork - a castle s...
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