Ecomuseum of the Marshy Grasses

2006-2013 / Villanova di Bagnacavallo (RA)
Ecomuseum of the Marshy Grasses

The Ecomuseum of the Marshy Grasses is housed in a former school building, where there are preserved manufactured articles deriving from the interlacement of some plant species like lesser bulrush, sedge, prickly rush, reeds and the woody species that spontaneously grew in this valley territory, subject to flooding, crossed by the river Lamone. There was an economy that for centuries involved the whole population in the production and marketing of mats, purses, baskets and straw-covered bottles; it stopped in the second half of the twentieth century due to the advent of plastics. The ecomuseum promotes various activities like the weaving laboratory, teaching for schools and catering for self-financing. In the park there is a pond with grasses and there are different types of valley huts.