The permanent exhibition, created and managed with passion by the Fossa Pellegrini company, is located in the historic center, within the walls of the ancient Sogliano castle, of which only a few remains are preserved today.

In the museum of fossa cheese, registered by the Emilia-Romagna Region among the “museums of taste“, you can see old equipment for collecting milk and processing cheese, tools for hollowing pit cheese, maturing pits and prison from the Malatesta era (1200-1400).

In the rooms it is also possible to admire some ancient maturation pits dug into the sandstone: they are flask-shaped, measuring about 4-7 meters deep and 2 meters in diameter. The cheese is placed in pits at the end of summer.

The traditional opening of the pits takes place on November 25th, the day of St. Catherine of Alexandria, a period in which the peasants, customarily, went to the village to collect the little cheese entrusted to the pits during the summer to cope with the hardships of winter. In memory of this tradition, the Fossa Cheese Fair was born, the first edition of which dates back to 1974.

The visit includes the presence of a guide who will tell the story of this ancient method of maturing and the characters who have had ties with Sogliano al Rubicone.