The name Colorno derives from the original position of the town at the confluence of the Lorno into the Parma stream: “Caput Lurni” at the head of the Lorno. The territory consisted of lowland lands, touched in part by the Roman colonization that affected the Parma countryside in the second century BC. In the Middle […]

“The people of Emilia use the bicycle as a hat, which cannot be abandoned, because it is a part of the person even that it is inopportune. The bike has something of the dog on us, continues company that we takes with even though without get in, to get from the house to the coffee […]

Colorno celebrate the passage of Giuseppe Garibaldi On the morning of 12th April, 1862 Giuseppe Garibaldi see foot in Colorno coming from Parma and headed to Casalmaggiore. He did not stay long, just for a quick stop to say hello to the town and then away to the land beyond the Po. The Municipality did […]

The territory, which extends between the municipalities of Colorno, Sorbolo Mezzani and Torrile, has all the characteristics of the “Lowland”, a land of plain and river where the hot summer midday and the motionless afternoon fogs in autumn follow each other, always the same though different. A land good of plantation and strain, land of […]