Vergato

Vergato lies in the valley of the Reno, among the wooded slopes of the Bolognese Apennines. Once a minor settlement belonging to the parish of Liserna, it gained importance in the second half of the fifteenth century when the seat of the captain of the mountain was transferred here from Casio. Vergato acquired a parish of its own in 1578. Tower houses in the surrounding uplands recall the fortified rural architecture of the medieval Apennines.