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Inside the resort there is 4 stars Hotel Piccolo Paradiso, 14 double rooms with bath, TV and telephone , and large parking.

SERVICES AND SPORTS
In the Camp: The camp has 2 groups of toilets, including free hot showers, disabled toilets, washbasins, sinks for tableware and biancheria, changing tables for babies and emptying chemical toilets.
There is also a camperservice, an area for car washing, laundry and ironing, and an extensive storage for caravans too. 
In the camp you have the possibility of practising relaxing sports such as bowls, table tennis and  volleyball.

Bar Market
Also inside the camp you can use the bar service, which includes cold and hot food and a mini market.
Bar Market has a games room equipped with table football , table tennis and many videogames.
Inside the camp we also provide visitors a bowling green, a volleyball court and, a few meters from the entrance to the camp, an amazing natural lake, which represents an oasis of serenity where is possible practising sport fishing ( recreational fishing )

Sport activities
Link www.piccoloparadiso.eu

PICCOLO PARADISO FOR YOUR CHILDREN
Piccolo Paradiso is the ideal place to spend holidays with your whole family and especially with your children. The Camp is a safe place to younger guests , rich of fun and suitable for their particular needs.
Camping Piccolo Paradiso has a  grassy mantle , shaded by a rich vegetation which will be able to surprise you by an extraordinarily rich fauna of squirrels, robins, woodpeckers, great tits and fawns.   
Piccolo Paradiso also has a playground equipped to let your children have good times playing with swings, slides, skating rinks and swimming pools, to make friends with children from all over the world  who have chosen Camping Piccolo Paradiso for their outdoor holidays.
Do your children love horses? In the near-by maneggio Ca’ Fortuzzi you can participate in courses riding and walks along the river or along the many hilly paths surroundings.
If, instead, are stars that you want them to see, you can visit the near-by Osservatorio Astronomico Felsina, in the territory of Comune di Monte San Pietro.
For cultural moments funny as the others, we reccomend visit the recreation center Casa dei Campi , which deals with the transmission of ancient traditions and crafts, and the educational farm “Fattoria Rio Maggiore” , loc. Rio Maggiore Sasso Marconi (BO), or the tour to naturalistic oasis of San Gherardo  in Sasso Marconi (BO), where is possible birdwatching.
Camping Piccolo Paradiso is an excellent starting point if you want to  do some funny Initiation in Camping: pitching tents, preparing and controlling a fire, orienteering ...Children’s Piccolo Paradiso!

WHAT YOU CAN DO IN PICCOLO PARADISO
The river
Especially for naturalists, 50 mt from Camping Piccolo Paradiso, you will find Setta river. It’s really a small natural oasis, where you can visit superb ravines : here you will be able to forget city noise and stress!

Trekking 
Visit Parco Storico Regionale di Monte Sole 
1.(Itinerario del Memoriale
2.Itinerario naturalistico
3.Itinerario di Montovolo
4.Itinerario morandiano
5.Itinerario etrusco)
6.Itinerari 5 Valli Appennino bolognese
7.La Strada degli Dei 

Bike MBK
Camping Piccolo Paradiso is the ideal starting point for many excursions for great fans of bike.
Distances from main airports : Bologna 20 km; Venice 158 km; Forlì 60 km; Rimini 110 km; Verona 115 Km; Treviso 170 Km.

ITINERARIES

1. FROM  BOLOGNA TO FLORENCE
The road which connects Bologna to Florence passing for Raticosa, Loiano, Monghidoro, Monzuno, Sasso Marconi, Sorroundings disctricts
The journey from Bologna to Florence can be also made on foot or by mountain-bike, following a trail that goes through the foothills and mountains of the Apennines. The trail, marked by red-white-red signs reading BO-Fi, winds across the range following the easiest route and therefore presents few obstacles to cyclists.

2. THREE NATURAL RESERVES
Pianoro, Castiglione dei Pepoli, Monzuno, Sorroundings disctricts
The suggested route lives from bologna Central Station and goes through three Regional Parks in the Bologna valley area. It starts from the Parco dei Gessi e dei Calanchi dell'Abbadessa, where more than 200 grottos can be found. The chalky terrain gives this area a moon-like appereance. It continues through the Parco Storico di Monte Sole, created to guard for natural emergencies, and in memory of the tragedy of Marzabotto in the autumn of 1944. It ends at the Parco dei Laghi di Suviana and Brasimone, location of two important lake basins, surrounded by woods and centuries-old chestnut trees, home to many wild animals.
The highest point of the 120-km route from Bologna (53 m above the sea level) to Riola (250 m above the sea level) lies at 842 m above the sea level. Most of the road presents few difficulties, except between San Lazzaro and Croara, Molino del Pero and Monzuno and between La Quercia and San Martino. There are some sections that have not been asphalted between Monte Termine and Monte Alcino (as far as the turn-off for Grizzana Morandi), but the road surface is in condition.

3. VIA TORRENERA
A nature route typical for its woods and old chestnuts.
A nature route of high -intermediate level going through narrow and picturesque valleys, distinctive for old chestnuts and woods. Along the route it is possible to make a detour for a short visit to the picturesque hamlet of Torre di Iano.
Route : Sasso Marconi - Rio Maggiore - Ronzano - Via Lagune - Medelana - Via Torrenera - Torre di Iano - Porrettana - Sasso Marconi

Horse Ride
On the hills of Guglielmo Marconi
A horse ride through the birthplaces of the great scientist and inventor.
The lands surrounding the town of Sasso Marconi have been for a long time the main site of Guglielmo Marconi's activity. This route allows you to travel by horse the most important sites of his life .
Total time:  2 days and 1 night.

Swim
You can attend swimming courses for all needs at the pool of our Centro Sportivo.
Link www.piccoloparadiso.eu

Free-Climbing
You can practise Free-climbing in Place Badolo, a few km from the camping.

Birdwatching
1. OASI DI SAN GHERARDO (OASIS OF S.GHERARDO)
Guided tours.
Informations and bookings : InfoSasso: 051-6758409 - info@infosasso.it  -  www.ecosistema.it/sangherardo/

Things to see
The geological and morphological aspects
The wood on the banks of the river , with willows e poplars and marshy vegetation
Arid meadows and particular vegetation of badlands
Woods with hop hornbeams and oaks
Vegetation on the rocky walls
The wetland birds ( herons, ducks, great crested grebes, eurasian coots, etc )
Peregrin falcon and the other birds of prey
European nightjar and the other birds of bushes and sunny prairies
Fauna from the hills: hares, foxies, roe deers, boars, etc.

Things to do
Birdwatching
Visits with nature guide
Environmental education for schools
Visit at ancient "Cunicolo romano" (underground aqueduct of the first century d.C., which brings water up to Bologna)
Volunteer activities for the conservation of nature.

2. PARKS & NATURE
The region of the Bologna Valleys winds along through 5 Valleys, named after the rivers which run through them. Travelling on foot, by mountain bike or by horse, you will discover the wild and unspoiled nature of the Bologna Apennine.
Following the routes used through the centuries by armies, pilgrims and famous writers, you will admire forest trees or glades with wild strawberries, breathtaking views, or have the chance of looking at an hawk circling above you after its prey, or even running across a roe deer.You could choose among different itineraries offered by three Parks crossing these Valleys. Starting from the "Parco dei Gessi Bolognesi", with chalky formations and more than 200 grottos, continuing through the "Parco Storico di Monte Sole",  to end up at the "Parco dei Laghi di Suviana e Brasimone", full of centuries-old chestnut.
You will immerse yourself in nature and live a unique and glamorous experience by feeling its perfumes, sounds and flavours.

Art  and  Culture 
History and culture for centuries armies, pilgrims and famous writers have crossed the region of Bologna Valleys. Some of them have written their experience of travel through these valleys in their books: Goethe in his "Travelling in Italy", Stendhal in his "Journals", and even Casanova in his "Memories".

Today it is still possible to travel through these routes full of evidences of the past and rediscover the same places to live a cultural experience and travel back in the past.

You can visit the ruins left by the Etruscans or go through the "Via Flaminia Minor", the route on which used to march the Romans. You can even experience the emotions of one of the greatest scientist of last century, Guglielmo Marconi, who carried out his first experiments of the radio on these hills. Finally you can follow the route of the "Linea gotica", a line of defence built by the German soldiers evidence of one of the most dramatic period of the recent past.
science  and  tech
Travelling through the region of Bologna Valleys in the direction of Florence, you cannot miss visiting the Mausoleum dedicated to one of the most famous scientist of last century: Guglielmo Marconi. From the top of these hills he carried out his first experiments on the radio. You will experience the emotions of these discoveries by visiting the Museum of the Marconi Foundation, one of the most important Italian centres for telecommunications.
In these valleys there was a build-up of the most unaffected scientific experiences, as evidenced by several water mills, with which our ancestors used to work enthusiastically putting out their ability. At the Suviana Lake you will notice the dam and the power point, which turns in electrical energy the simple mechanic produced by the old mills.
You will see the photovoltaic power plant, built near the same lake, to catch the sun rays, whereas the wind force is caught by the amazing sails of Monte Galletto.

If you stay longer you can visit the Astronomical Observatory of Monte Orzale, in the vicinity of Loiano. Through its effective telescope you will see something you could never imagine.
MARZABOTTO - Necropoli etrusca
Sasso Marconi - Museum of the Marconi Foundation 
Astronomical Observatory of Monte Orzale   
http://www.sagreinemilia.it   

HOW TO GET HERE - LOCATION
Highway: From Bologna travelling on Autostrada A1 , directed to Florence,  you must get Sasso Marconi exit. Then you get to a traffic circle, where you must follow direction Piccolo Paradiso ; after 800 mt. you will reach a bridge on the left side.You must turn left  and cross the bridge, following the tourist sign “Piccolo Paradiso”.
State Highway: From Bologna you must take state highway Porrettana SS64 until Sasso Marconi. Just out of the town at the  first traffic circle you must follow direction Vado, pass the bridge on the river Reno, and, when you get to the second traffic circle , you must go right ahead on direction camping. After 2 Km you will find on your right the yellow tourist sign of Camping Piccolo Paradiso, turn right and pass the bridge. 
Plane: you can reach the train station Bologna Centrale by taxi or by the convenient service of Aereobus. Every thirty minutes there is a train to Sasso Marconi , direction Porretta Terme.

CONTACT US
Camping Piccolo Paradiso 
Sirano di Marzabotto - Bo - It 
Phone +39 051 84.26.80 - Fax +39 051 675.65.81
Mobile +39 335 7617816

E.mail: info@campingtpiccoloparadiso.eu

RECEPTION OPEN:
8.30 - 13.00    15 – 19 (longer during summer and shorter during  winter)