In the middle of Senio valley, where Appennino slopes runs to the plain flowing in the Reno river, lies Casola a little resort linked up to Santerno and Lamone valley thanks to many picturesque paths.
A very interesting characteristic of Casola, that are also a tourist attractive are the aromatic plants.
Also gastronomy is influenced by this peculiarity, creating receipts based on natural plants.
Casola is the native land of Alfredo Oriani (1852-1909) a precursor of cultural tendencies of the Futurism.
Really interesting to visit is the Abbey that rises 1 Km far from Casola. Probably it was built by Benedictines during the XI century and originally it had to be it a monastery.
Thanks to the settlement of Benedictines the village had a big economical increasing, with the introduction of new cultivation as the olive oil one. Agriculture, after Benedictines, was the main interest of many families of farmhouses and the village was property of many noble families as: Calderini, Ghisilieri (XVI century) and later Costa di Valsenio family.
      The fortress of Monte Battaglia is not far from Casola: study say that here probably was the place of a big fight: Goti against Bizzantini.
"Monte de Batalla" appears for the first time in a document of 1154 and for many century it was site of the countryside round Imola.
In 1390 Bologna ordained the destroy of the fortress but the place was for many other centuries an important strategic point.