 The first colonizers of the Roarolo were the Benedictine monks of the Abbey of Canossa, who had settled there before the year 1000.They kept the colony until 1219.As a result of some trade-ins from that year, the property went to the Benedictines of the St. John's Monastery of Parma, who lived there until the French Revolution era.The authors of the development and the land reclamation all around the village of Vicozoaro were the Benedictine monks, who deforested, broke up and levelled out the land with the support of the local laymen.