Information:
Rocca Sforzesca, tel. 0542-678240
Comune di Dozza, tel. 0542-678116
www.comune.dozza.bo.it
e-mail: info@comune.dozza.bo.it





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In name of the water. This characteristic located medioevale village on a cape along the watershed of the Sellustra torrent, must just the name to the topic of the water: indicated with Ducia in the Chartularium Imolense already in 1147, it seems to derive from the medioevale Latin ducia , changed then in local the dialectal shape of dòza, from the meant one of fossa, channel, river or structure that lead water.


The etimologia of the Dozza name it finds a glare in the ancient coat of arms that encloses a grifo lionato rampante, represented in the action to drink itself to one gronda or shower. The coat of arms today is completed from a crown and rebellions of bay oak and that encircle it. Ancient images in sandstone stone of the coat of arms with the grifo are visible on the prepositurale Church and the income of the medioevale village.



The historical center of Dozza with the characteristic fused shape to, it is placed on the crinale of the hill that dominates goes it them of the Sellustra and digrada sweetly towards the way Emilia.
Integrity of originates woven them building going back to the Middle Ages is remained safeguarded, immune from simbiosi grinding participations and the grip between the imposing rocca to the apex of the country and the below residential takeover, that it follows the tracing of the ancient ones walls, immediately communicates the harmony between the nature and the participation of the man. In X the Dozza century it had already the Palace Pretorio, the Church, the rooms of the fittavoli, it forges it of fabbro and the bottega of the carpenter.
Still today the country is covered from two roads parallels that give the income door finish in the space of the Rocca where between the other the Restaurant is found the Scuderia.


Dozza it is center of the Regional Wine cellar of the Emilia Romagna site in the Rocca. Founded in 1970, the structure has been recognized from the Region with appropriate law of 1978, like the more suitable instrument in order to value and to promote, in Italy and to the foreign country, the wine produced in region.
To the flat earth of the Rocca the offices have center, while in the evocative wine cellars, completely restructured in 1990, are prepared the permanent extension of wines select in order to make part to you of the Wine cellar.

 
Piazza Rocca - DOZZA IMOLESE (Bo) - Tel.e Fax 0542.678103 - E.mail: preti.lascuderia@tin.it