Giovannino Guareschi Bust
Next to the San Benedetto Cultural Center and the "Peppone and Don Camillo" Museum is the Guareschi Park, dedicated to the writer of Fontanelle, Parma: a beautiful green area in the heart of the village. In it there is an old steam locomotive, renovated by the volunteers of the Pro-Loco, and the bust of Giovannino Guareschi, the work of the German sculptor Gudrun Schreiner, inaugurated in October 1995 in the presence of the sons Carlotta and Alberto, the well-known journalist and writer Michele Serra, of the President of the "Club dei Ventitrè" Giovanni Lugaresi and of many other guests and private citizens. On the base there is a bronze plaque with the words "To Giovannino Guareschi, Father of Don Camillo and Peppone".