Museum of Peasant Civilization – Navile Canal loop from Castelmaggiore
Museum of Peasant Civilization – Navile Canal loop from Castelmaggiore
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Museum of Peasant Civilization – Navile Canal loop from Castelmaggiore
03:36
14.3km
20m
Hiking
Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: April 8, 2026
Waypoints
Start point
Train Station
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6.82 km
Villa Smeraldi – Museum of Rural Life
Highlight • Historical Site
Since 1973 the villa has housed the Museum of peasant civilization, which documents the buildings, the tools, the daily life of those who dealt with rural agriculture nearby, from the landowner to the farmer.
Erected on the foundations of a series of buildings built in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the complex of Villa Smeraldi is known by the surname of its most recent owners.
The villa, once known as a casino or rural palace, dates back to 1783, when it belonged to the Zambeccari Counts.
In the following century the buildings were enlarged, a neo-Gothic tower was added and some English gardens were built to surround the villa.
At the end of the 19th century, Count Gaetano Zucchini and his son Antonio expanded the property. From 1922 to 1942 it was owned by Rigoberto Smeraldi, who devoted himself to agriculture and bred thoroughbred horses. The property was inherited by Antonio Roversi.
The province of Bologna acquired the site in 1970 to create the museum of peasant civilization opened in 1973 and containing thousands of testimonies of work and life in the Bolognese countryside between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Museum of Peasant Civilization
Highlight • Historical Site
7.42 km
Villa Smeraldi Museum of Rural Life
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13.3 km
Navile Canal
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14.3 km
End point
Train Station
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
12.2 km
1.16 km
873 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
8.45 km
3.09 km
1.13 km
1.10 km
525 m
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Tuesday 30 June
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