Altitude: mt 411 | Distance from the provincial capital: km 65 | Zip Code: 43043 | Phone code: 0525 | Surface area: Km2 152.30
It’s an important center of the apennines Mountains on the border with the Lunigiana. It represents an important road and railway connection with Tuscany and Liguria. The old centre is rich of monuments, churches and palaces. Upper school campus, which includes scientific, technical and professional colleges. There is a public hospital, which serves the surrounding area as well as the mountain communities of the valleys of the Taro and Ceno. There are companies specialized in the collection, packing and trading of the woodland products, such as the "mushroom Borgotaro" which boasts the PGI recognition (Protected Geographical Indication) and that is celebrated in late September, with the mushroom’s exhibition.