Frassinoro

The Abbey of Frassinoro was one of the many Benedictine monasteries throughout Europe associated with the noblewoman Matilda of Tuscany, who reigned over the Badia lands near Frassinoro. This abbey was located in Frassinoro, in the Apennines in the province of Modena, on the border with Reggio Emilia.

Romanoro is a small hamlet in the province of Modena in central Italy, administratively a frazione of Frassinoro. It is about 700 metres (2,300 ft) above sea level. Right below the town flows the Dolo mountain stream. A dam exists at the top of Fontanaluccia, that deviates part of the water about 16 km (9.9 mi) downward to the hydroelectric power plant located in the nearby Farneta.

Casola is a village in Italy in the Province of Parma, in the Emilia-Romagna region. It is more than 3 kilometers (approximately 1.86 miles) from the town of Terenzo which it is part of. 37-38 inhabitants live in the settlement, with more than half of them being female, with the others male. Additionally, almost half of the people living there are married, but a sizable amount are single or widowed. There are many towns named "Casola" in the province of Parma. However, only one has the name of Casola without any additions such as "Villa di Casola," "Castello di Casola," "Casola di Terenzo."

Morsiano is a hamlet (administratively a frazione) of Villa Minozzo in the province of Reggio Emilia. Located in the tuscany-emilia apennines near the Mount Cusna slopes. It is about 720 meters (2,360 feet) above sea level.

Fontanaluccia is a frazione of the comune of Frassinoro in the Province of Modena, Emilia-Romagna, central Italy. It is located at an altitude of 853 m, in the upper Modena Apennines, located on the right bank of the Dolo stream.

Montefiorino (Frignanese: Muntfiurèin) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Modena in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 60 kilometres (37 mi) southwest of Bologna and about 40 kilometres (25 mi) southwest of Modena.

Santa Maria Assunta is Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic parish church located at Via della Chiesa in the frazione of Rubbiano, in the town of Montefiorino, province of Modena, in the region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

Toano (Reggiano: Toân; locally Tvân or Tuân) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Reggio Emilia in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 60 kilometres (37 mi) west of Bologna and about 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Reggio Emilia. Toano borders the following municipalities: Baiso, Carpineti, Frassinoro, Montefiorino, Palagano, Prignano sulla Secchia, Villa Minozzo. It counts the hamlets (frazioni) of Cavola, Cerrè Marabino, Cerredolo, Frale, Massa di Toano and Quara.

Villa Minozzo (Reggiano: La Vìla da Mnòcc) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Reggio Emilia in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 70 kilometres (43 mi) west of Bologna and about 40 kilometres (25 mi) southwest of Reggio Emilia.

Carpineti (Reggiano: Carpnèida [karpˈnɛi̯da], locally Carpnéda) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Reggio Emilia in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 70 kilometres (43 mi) west of Bologna and about 30 kilometres (19 mi) southwest of Reggio Emilia. Carpineti borders the following municipalities: Baiso, Casina, Castelnovo ne' Monti, Toano, Viano, Villa Minozzo.

The Pietra di Bismantova (literally Stone of Bismantova) is a geological formation (monadnock or inselberg) in the Reggiano Apennines, in the comune of Castelnovo ne' Monti, province of Reggio Emilia, Northern Italy, c. 45 kilometres (28 mi) from Reggio Emilia. It has the shape of a narrow, quasi-cylindrical plateau (measuring 1 km x 240 m) whose steep walls emerge 300 metres (980 ft) as an isolated spur from the nearby hills. The top has an elevation of 1,047 metres (3,435 ft) above sea level. It is included in the National Park of the Appennino Tosco-Emiliano. The spur is composed of yellowish calcarenite over a marl basement, all formed in the Miocene as a sea bottom. It includes fossils belonging to a tropical environment. It is surrounded by woods, mostly of hazel trees (Corylus avellana). The Pietra di Bismantova is mentioned by Dante Alighieri in his Divine Comedy (Purgatory, IV, 25-30).

Busanella is a hamlet (frazione) of the Italian Municipality of Carpineti, in the province of Reggio Emilia. The whole frazione, with other small hamlets, is also known as San Biagio, from the name of the parish church, which was a filial church of the pleban church of Carpineti. Busanella is located in the Apennines mountains, near the river Tresinaro. The hamlet is first named in a document of the year 1240. In the neighbourhood there are other small hamlets (località), among them Frombolara, an ancient possession of the benedictine monks of the abbey of Marola, Pignedolo and Cantigalli. Under the Este rule Busanella was a county of the Duchy of Reggio, feud of the count Orazio Malaguzzi, of the family of the poet Ludovico Ariosto. Busanella, together with other hamlets of the frazione, counts about 170 inhabitants.