Eremo di Tizzano

The Eremo di Tizzano can be considered one of the most suggestive places in Casalecchio di Reno. Arrived at the top after a couple of km uphill you can enjoy a splendid panorama. Your gaze sweeps over the whole plain of Bologna: you can see the Reno valley on the right, in front of the Sanctuary of San Luca to arrive, in the absence of mist, up to Monte Mario and Badolo.

Erected by the Camaldolese monks between 1655 and 1741, the church, dedicated to San Benedetto, has a simple and elegant Bolognese baroque style. Inside, a single, high and bright nave is surrounded by six side chapels, connected to each other by narrow passages, in which it is possible to admire pictorial works of excellent workmanship. Worthy of note is the beautiful sixteenth-century crucifix in olive wood, at the base of which there is a reliquary which is said to contain fragments of the True Cross and other relics testifying to the Passion of Christ.

On the left side of the building stands the bell tower built in 1724 once inhabited by the Prior. In the large lawn at the back, which once housed seventeen cells for the Eremite Monks, the remains of two of them are now visible and you can access a secondary church, a sort of consecrated cellar, which at the time of the war was used to shelter.