- home - the company - our wines - contact us wine and Oltrepo Pavese --Index of subjects --OLTREPO PAVESE and BOSNASCO ------ -> Oltrepo Pavese - Bosnasco The great triangle of land that stretches down from the Po and pushes southwards towards the Ligurian Apennine was, at the time of the Viscontis, known as the "Ultra Padum" "beyond the Po". Today it bears the name Oltrepò Pavese and the shape of its territory, as seen on a map, is incredibly reminiscent of a bunch of grapes: a mark of destiny, perhaps? This is a considerably large stretch of land and it is almost a sin to mention only a few of the communes that make it up: Varzi, Montalto, Pavese, with its sixteenth-century castle, Fortunago, with its pretty mediaeval village and stone-built houses, Calvignano, Pitera de' Giorgi and Cigognola, Santa Maria della Versa, Casteggio and Canneto Pavese, Broni, Stradella, Montù Beccaria and lastly Bosnasco, almost bordering on the territory of the Piacenza region.