Portico e San Benedetto

Portico e San Benedetto () is a comune (municipality) 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

In Portico di Romagna:

• 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 ("Majesty Bridge", 17th–18th centuries)

In San Benedetto in Alpe:

• Acquacheta water fall on the river of the same name, also described by Dante Alighieri in his Divine Comedy (Inferno, Canto XVI, 100–101)
• Monastery of St. Benedict, of medieval origins

References

External links

• Official website
• RomagnaToscana tourism website