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 castle of Sogliano, of which only a few remains are preserved today. In the museum of fossa cheese, listed by the Emilia-Romagna Region among the“museums of taste,” you can see old equipment for milk collection and cheese making, tools for digging fossa cheese, maturing pits and dungeons from the Malatesta period (1200-1400). On the premises it is also possible to admire some ancient ripening 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 the pits at the end of summer. The traditional opening of the pits takes place on November 25, the day of St. Catherine of Alexandria, a time when farmers 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, with the first edition dating back to 1974. The visit will include a guide who will tell the story of this ancient aging method and the people who had ties to Sogliano al Rubicone.