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Villa Sorra was built for the count Antonio Sorra during the first half of the 18^th century. It is surrounded by a wide romantic park, one of the most important informal gardens and one of the best preserved ones in Emilia Romagna.
It is a typical case of Italian gardens’ history : built in the 18^th century according to the formal schemes of the times, it was refurbished in the 19^th century according the new rules of English style gardens of those years, with numerous, rare, exotic arboreal essences and characteristic elements such as a  hillock with a grotto,  a castle in ruins, a bridge, a pier, a lake and a big greenhous.
Of the formal garden remain only the fish pool, the side canals and, next to the villa, traces of the previous geometrical division.
In a wide outdoor area, in the vicinities of two old cultivated poplar woods, there are different  vegetal species, which have created an interesting botanical complex which evolves spontaneously.

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