Farmhouse via Le Macine 81, Montecreto

MONTECRETO ... and to describe this beautiful farmhouse what could be better than using the story that the owner gave me? the first time a road was named that from Cutigliano (Gr Duchy of Tuscany) passing through Fiumalbo, Pievepelago, Riolunato and Strettara allowed to reach the lands of the Montecuccoli nel Frignano. The route passed in the middle of our village and is still passable to feet, on a cycle and on horseback.
The oldest building in the village dates back to the end of the 18th century and stood on this ancient cart track that rose from the Scoltenna stream (550 meters above sea level) and allowed, at the time, the passage of men, animals (cattle, mules , flocks, etc.) and wagons from the municipalities of the upper Modena and Tuscan Apennines and headed for Frignano. he met was that of Casa Mucci, just beyond the Digano house, then the Magnani, Garrada and Bagatti houses up to Valdalbero; from there, passing through Vaglio, one reached, as now, Lama Mocogno and the Modenese. the sunniest side, the valley below with the hydroelectric power station, the Scoltenna and all dominated by the Parish Church of Montecreto (800m above sea level). a rocky spur, completed and enlarged in the mid-19th century (1854) as reported on the jamb of the door on the lower courtyard. manor house which, with the village, is located in the central point of the fund consisting of 35 hectares of which 13/14 of cultivated fields and 22 consist of coppice. to four lights, behind the manor house, used since the end of the 19th century and in the first decades of the 20th century to signal to the inhabitants of the two sides of the Scoltenna the unfolding of celebrations in a small church dedicated to the Madonna del Ponte, about 450 meters from the village built around the 1713 (don Apollonio Zanelli) and today no longer present. to collect the milk in the morning and in the evening. In the 1960s the road from Lama Mocogno to the Ponte dei Leoni was finally traced, paved and completed; now this artery allows, remaining at low altitudes, to reduce the mileage and transit times between the medium-high Modena Apennines (Montecre