Castel San Pietro Terme

What to see

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  Cassero

  The gateway stands at the southern edge of the old walls, its stone face marking what was once the main entry into the castrum. Inside, the civic theater now occupies the space, so the structure that once controlled access to the town now hosts its audiences.

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  Terme di Castel San Pietro

  The complex draws on sulphurous, ferruginous and salt-bromine-iodide springs, with the first establishment opened in 1870. The waters run year-round from the same sources used centuries before the modern building existed.

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  Santuario del Crocifisso del Piratello

  Pilgrimage shrine on the Via Emilia toward Imola, built around a fifteenth-century crucifix and decorated by Innocenzo da Imola. It drew pilgrim traffic from across northern Emilia, standing apart from the walled town on the road out toward Romagna.

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  Palazzo del Municipio

  Town hall on Piazza XX Settembre, with the seventeenth-century Torre dell'Orologio and the local civic museum.

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  Centro storico

  Medieval walled core on the Via Emilia, holding the gateway, the Conservatorio Santa Caterina of 1741 and the Sillaro river bridge within a compact perimeter.

We recommend

Where to eat

Not our picks, but places the guides put their name to: a Michelin star, a Gambero Rosso fork, a Slow Food snail, a Michelin Key for the hotels. Worth a table, a counter, or a night when you pass through.

• GastareaBistrot

  🍽️Gastarea holds one Gambero Rosso table.

• Il GrifoneRistorante

  🔴A spot in the Michelin Guide, at Il Grifone.

• Osteria La CivichellaTrattoria

  🦐Osteria La Civichella has one Gambero Rosso prawn to its name.