The commune Portico di Romagna includes three villages: the main Portico, Bocconi and San Benedetto in Alpe even if historically speaking this three village are separated by different administrations.
In the middle age Portico was the chief town of Romagna Toscana, under the domination of Florence till the XV century when the chief town become Castrocaro, than Terra del Sole and till the Italian Unity Rocca San Casciano.
The whole territory was really loved by the poet Dante Alighieri: the Benedictine Abbey of San Benedetto in Alpe (X-XI century), the palce of Beatrice Portinari , the woman of the Divina Commedia, who here used to spend some holidays, the bridge called "della Brusia" in Portico and the one called "della Maestà" in Bocconi, the medieval village Portico, the Bocconi and the S. Benedetto ones.
Really famous in Portico is the "Frutti del Sottobosco " festival.
During the summer in the three villages take part many cultural and traditional events organized by Pro Loco.
The whole lands is rich of sport attractions in every season.
In San Benedetto in Alpe rises the Benedictine Abbey built in X-XI century.
The main attractive in San Benedetto in the famous waterfall called "Acquacheta" song by Dante in the Divina Commedia: water falls for 70 meter creating a very suggestive scenery.
On the top of the waterfall lies the Romiti village, built on the ruins of the monastery of San Bendetto in Aple where Dante spent his exile from Florence.
      B etween San Benedetto and the waterfall is possible to cross a wonderful natural path called " The valley and the Dante's waterfall" really suggestive especially in Autumn and in Spring when the waterfall is rich of water.
Probably this wonderful place was the main reason that convinced San Romualdo in the X centuy to built the abbey in San Benedtto in Alpe and Dante to write the first pages of the Divina Commedia and also Boccaccio to study and comment on Dante's poetry.