Mushrooms - Naso&Gola - Parma, Italy
"Considered the ""capital"" of the valley, Borgotaro spreads out in a wide dell on the left bank of the Taro River, in an area where the borders of Emilia, Liguria and Tuscany meet. The territory, placed under the jurisdiction of the Monastery of Bobbio already in the 12th century, passed under the domination of the Fieschi family in the 13th, where it remained until the 16th century, when the creation of the Dukedom and the establishment of the Farnese put the valley under the Duke's Crown. The urban centre, once surrounded by defensive walls, conserves a historic and architectonic patrimony of great interest for its fine buildings and noble palaces from the 16th to the 18th centuries. The Sant'Antonino Parish Church, built between 1644 and 1667 over the ruins of a 12th-century chapel, stands beside the only surviving tower of the ancient fortress and imposing Palazzo Tardini, once the hospital of Borgotaro. In the church of San Domenico, built in the 1400s and transformed a century later are found important sacred paintings. San Rocco Church conserves a Via Crucis of the Neapolitan artist Gaspare Traversi, active in the area in the middle of the 18th century. In the chestnut and beach woods covering much of the municipality's territory, particular climatic conditions favour the growth of much sought-after mushrooms, especially ""porcini"", the only kind recognised by the European Community with Protected Geographical Indication (PGI). Borgotaro mushrooms are gathered in the territories of the provinces of Parma and Massa Carrara in the municipalities of Borgo Val di Taro, Albareto and Pontremoli in single species woods or mixtures of broadleaf species (beach, chestnut, turkey oak, hornbeam, hazelnut, quivering poplar) and conifers (silver and red firs, black and white pine). Val Taro mushrooms constitute one more calling card for the famous Food Valley, for their high quality and extraordinary aroma. And although the ""porcino"" (Boletus aestivalis, Boletus pinicola, Boletus aureus, Boletus edulis) is the mushroom par excellence of the area, other wonderfully tasty species of the wide variety of Boletus, field mushrooms and royal agaric are also equally prized. The mushroom market of BorgoTaro is one of the most important in Italy. "
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