{"id":39483,"date":"2022-10-02T17:21:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T15:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/arte-e-cultura\/piplon-and-its-legend\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:41:00","slug":"piplon-and-its-legend","status":"publish","type":"arte-e-cultura","link":"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/piplon-and-its-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"The legend of Piplon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day the silly devil Piplon, felt in love with a beatiful girl named Gesandra, but the young lady refused him.<\/p>\n<h3>The deception<\/h3>\n<p>To cheating on her, he dressed up as a chevalier and he asked for help to Gesualdo, a monk from\u00a0 the area, to plead for him.<\/p>\n<h3>The monk made fun of Piplon<\/h3>\n<p>Anyway the monk didn&#8217;t let himself convinced and he decided to cheat on him on his turn. He said to Piplon to come back a weeks after; in the meanwhile he carved a rock in his image. When the devil came back after a week, the friar Gesualdo managed to convince him that his beloved will merry him only if he would have waiting for her in the same place for seven years, seven months and seven days. The friar offered himself to be the company during this waiting time.<\/p>\n<p>After many months and years Piplon felt asleep; the sand, transported by the wind, covered his body, turning him in a rock. Nowadays it&#8217;s still possible to see the rock on the Castellana street, in the municipality of <a href=\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/places\/gropparello\/\">Gropparello<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays it&#8217;s still possible to reach the Piplon rock. Starting from Gropparello Square, going to Castellana, keeping the direction to Groppovisdomo and Veleia. Then crossing the Vezzeno creek, after a while on the right side it&#8217;s possible to see the 10 meters high black with blue-green reflections monolithic rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One day the silly devil Piplon, felt in love with a beatiful girl named Gesandra, but the young lady refused him. To cheating on her, he dressed up as a chevalier and he asked for help to a Gesualdo, a monk from\u00a0 the area, to plead for him. Anyway the monk didn\u2019t let himself convinced and he decided to cheat on him on his turn. He said to Piplon to came back a week after; in the meanwhile he carved a rock in his image. When the devil came back after a week, the friar Gesualdo menaged to convince him that his beloved will merriage him only if he would have waiting for her in the same place for seven years, seven months and seven days. The friar offer himself to be the company during this waiting time. After many months and years Piplon felt asleep; the sand, transported by the wind, covered his body, turning him in a rock. Nowadays it\u2019s still possible to see the rock on the Castellana street, in the municipality of Gropparello. Nowadays it\u2019s still possible to reach the Piplon rock. Starting from Gropparello Square, going to Castellana, keeping the direction to Groppovisdomo and Veleia. Then crossing the Vezzeno creek, after a while on the right side it\u2019s possible to see the 10 meters high black with bluegreen reflections monolithic rock.","protected":false},"featured_media":18845,"template":"","territorio":[937],"categorie_arte_e_cultura":[928],"class_list":["post-39483","arte-e-cultura","type-arte-e-cultura","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","territorio-val-nure-en","categorie_arte_e_cultura-curiosities"],"acf":{"contatti_iat":false,"location":{"lat":"44.832211","lng":"9.730647","address":""},"accessibilita_disabili":"","orario":"","chiusura_settimanale":"","tariffe":"","iat":33738,"localita":33132},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The legend of Piplon - Visit Piacenza<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Piplon legend tells the story about a silly devil, who turned in a harmless rock by the trick of the friar Gesualdo.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/piplon-and-its-legend\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The legend of Piplon - 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