Timetable of extra-urban routes
Transport service
840 000 216 - Contact Center Seta (Monday-Saturday from 07:00 a.m. to 07:00 p.m.; Sunday from 09:00 a.m. to 05:00 p.m., closed on weekday holidays)
840 151 152 - Railway Call Center
Tickets can also be purchased in the tobacconist shops (tabaccheria).
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Here are the maps of the 32 Municipalities of the local editorial staff of Reggio Emilia:
Reggio nell'Emilia
Albinea
Bagnolo in Piano
Bibbiano
Boretto
Brescello
Cadelbosco Sopra
Campagnola Emilia
Campegine
Casalgrande
Castellarano
Castelnovo Sotto
Cavriago
Correggio
Fabbrico
Gattatico
Gualtieri
Guastalla
Luzzara
Montecchio Emilia
Novellara
Poviglio
Quattro Castella
Reggiolo
Rio Saliceto
Rolo
Rubiera
San Martino in Rio
San Polo d'Enza
Sant'Ilario d'Enza
Scandiano
Vezzano sul Crostolo
Altitude: 25 m
Inhabitants: 7.020 (updated to December 31, 2023)
Post code: 42028
Weekly market day: Saturday
Patron Saint: Santo Stefano (December 26)
Hamlets: Fodico, Godezza, San Sisto, Enzola, Casalpò
0039 0522 966811 - Municipality Municipality of Poviglio
Poviglio
By car
From the exit of the Reggio Emilia Motorway A1: take the road SS358 to Castelnovo di Sotto-Brescello. If you rather follow Via Emilia (SS9), you have to turn north past Sant'Ilario d'Enza.
By bus
From Reggio Emilia, Piazzale Europa: bus No. 93.
The territory of Poviglio was densely populated during the Bronze Age, when the terramara settlements were built. After the Iron Age, about which we have no information, the area was colonized by the Etruscans in the 6th century b.C. An invasion by the Celts caused a decline in the IV century b.C. Following this time, the Romans colonized the area; traces are still visible in the countryside today of their characteristic system of checkerboard roads and plots of farmland called "centuriation".
The municipal territory, located in the lowlands of the Reggio Emilia province, covers an area of 43 square kilometres.
It is possible to admire the Santo Stefano Church, dating back to the 12th century, which contains a work by the painter Carlo Zatti. The bell tower, built in the 14th century, has an upper cell in three-mullioned windows with a flat balustrade roof.
Santa Rosa Terramara
One of the largest “terramaras” in Europe can be found in the province of Reggio Emilia, composed of a settlement with two dwellings covering seven hectares and dating back to a time between the 16th and 12th century b.C. The terramara culture, considered one of the most important civilizations in European pre-history, arose and developed in the Po River Valley between around 1650 and 1150 b.C. The terramaras were square-shaped fortified villages, enclosed by embankments (or palisades in the more ancient forms) and ditches, located in the water courses.
The site of the Santa Rosa Terramara can be visited during summer excavations, with free guided tours.
The tours include a short introduction to the terramara culture and the Santa Rosa site, as well an illustration of the areas currently being excavated, work procedures, the most recent discoveries, the stratigraphy and the structural elements currently visible.
The Terramara Museum, instead, can be visited all year; inside are collections of materials coming from the excavations of the important Bronze Age Terramara and the remains of a Roman villa found in the village of Fodico.
Spring Festival - Third Sunday of April
Flowers and plants, local food and wine products, artists and collectors, sales of ecological products, entertainment and street art performances.
Another point of interest is the cuisine of Poviglio, faithfully reflecting a land rich in traditions and flavours, and recipes such as that of erbazzone, a particular savoury pie based on spinach, green onions and Grana cheese. The production of cold pork meats and Lambrusco, the most exported Italian wine - fresh and light -, is also excellent. During festivals, cold pork meats and Lambrusco accompany fried dumpling. Local desserts include: Christmas tortellini, fried or cooked in the oven with their delicious jam filling, walnuts and liquor; intrigoni or chiacchiere (at Carnival time), spongata and nut liquor, typical infusion of this area, of which every elderly lady has her own exclusive recipe.
Via Parma, 1 - 42028 Poviglio 0039 0522 960426
biblioteca@comune.poviglio.re.it La Terramara "Santa Rosa"
Museo della Terramara
Museum opening hours for free visits
Tuesday 9.00 - 12.30 and 15.00 - 17.00
Wednesday 9.00 - 12.30
Saturday 9.00 - 12.30
Entry to the Museum during the above times is free, with no obligation to book and allows free visits to the exhibition spaces. Signing the visitor register is welcome.
Guided tours, even in foreign languages, are possible upon request and booking even at different times, through the Museum contacts.
Thursday and Friday mornings are normally reserved for educational activities dedicated to schools, including guided tours and workshops, upon reservation via the Museum contacts.
Free entrance.
The Museum offers guided tours and educational activities for schools, preferably on Monday and Tuesday, which have to be booked in advance, contacting the Library
Poviglio
By car
From the exit Reggio Emilia of the Motorway A1 take SS358 to Castelnovo di Sotto / Brescello. If you rather follow Via Emilia (SS9), you have to turn northward once reached Sant'Ilario
By bus
From Piazzale Europa bus No. 93
Open in 1996, in occasion of the visit to the excavation of the participants to the XIII International Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Science, the Museum exhibits the most important items found in Santa Rosa Terramara.
All the activities carried on by the Museum are funded by the Municipality of Poviglio.
The very important findings hosted in the Museum are almost 500 and offer a overall idea of what the life and the developement of the village has been.
There are ceramics, ornaments, bronze and bone tools, glass paste jewelry and much more.
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Piazza Umberto I° - 42028 Poviglio
Phone 0039 0522 969266 or 0522 654240
S.Stefano Parish church
Weekdays: from 07:30 a.m. to 01:00 p.m.
See the indication to reach Poviglio
The original structure of the church, probably dating back to the 11th century, must had been similar to the present one but incorporated into the castle.
The entrance reserved to the feudal lord was internal, while the faithful entered from a door located on one side.
Renovated in the XIX century, the church has a large and luminous façade, divided by pilasters, liturgically oriented from east to west.
The church, with three naves divided by pillars, contains two polychrome plaster frontals and an octagonal baptismal font in Verona marble with rosettes and shields.
The XV-century tower has undergone several renovations. On the first floor of the bell tower, there is a fresco depicting Madonna and Angels, dated back to the Middle Ages.
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Via Chiesa di Fodico, 5 - 42028 Poviglio
Phone 0039 0522 960081
See the indication to reach Poviglio
The inscription above the portal dates the church to year 1100.
Restoration and extension works were carried out in 1763, when the façade was reconstructed in Classical style.
The bell tower, sacristy, and choir were built in their present form in 1885.
The church contains a wealth of Baroque stuccos and a crucifix from the school of Guido Reni.
The side chapels were added several centuries after first building of the church.
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Via d'Este - Podere Santa Rosa - Locality Fodico, 42028 Poviglio 0039 0522 960426 - Public library of Poviglio
Terramara "Santa Rosa" Museum
Guided tours for adults are held in summer time when is open the excavation area. During the period of excavation
Poviglio
By car
From the exit Reggio Emilia of the Motorway A1 take SS358 to Castelnovo di Sotto / Brescello. If you rather follow Via Emilia (SS9), you have to turn northward once reached Sant'Ilario
By bus
From Piazzale Europa bus No. 93
Few people know that the Po Valley near the river, like other Italian regions but with a particular density here, was home to a prehistoric civilisation characterized by large villages constructed of pile dwellings, true wooden cities that lived off agriculture and animal husbandry, particularly that of horses. This civilisation flourished from 1650-1150 B.C. and then mysteriously vanished. It is called the Terramare civilisation, after the name given to these archaeological sites fertilized by ancient organic deposits. The province of Reggio Emilia is home to one of the largest and most studied settlements, found in San Sisto di Poviglio. During the summer excavations guided tours of the site are offered, and the museum organized by the municipality of Poviglio is open all year round.
]]>The villa is private and can be visited during events
Poviglio
By car
From the exit Reggio Emilia of the Motorway A1 take SS358 to Castelnovo di Sotto / Brescello. If you rather follow Via Emilia (SS9), you have to turn northward once reached Sant'Ilario
By bus
From Piazzale Europa bus n. 93
The building has a long façade. The lights are regular and symmetrically placed, with those on the ground floor being semicircular. The central body is surmounted by a linear attic and on the two sides there are low buildings that include greenhouses, stablings, and out-buildings that circumscribe a large courtyard which was once the garden of the villa. The rusticated corners are finished in ashlar-work.
The entrance is archivolted and surmounted by a small balcony on the first floor.
Ringroad with a completely flat route, passing through country and secondary roads. Pay attention at crossroads and roundabouts, following pedestrian crossings.
Total length: 26km
The union between land and water, here in the Lowlands, is indivisible, so that already 3500 years ago, this was reality.
Bronze Age populations, settled around the Po river, had their settlings in "Terramare", elevated lands above waters where people built pile dwellings and settlements. These dwellings let populations to develop their own culture and enabled creation of highly historical value objects, that today's archaeologists analysed and discovered how was the Past before Celts, Etruscans, and Romans.
Our route starts from Poviglio, home to Europe's biggest Terramara and to the museum that hosts the archaeological site, with findings from the site. The actual site of the Terramara is now located in the outskirts of the hamlet of Fodico, and it is opened to the general public once a year, with guided tours explaining the state of the archaeological works.
Poviglio can show in its countryside the signs of Roman Centuriation, the Roman system for the organisation of fields and countryside, one of the most stunning manmade projects for landscaping. Later in the centuries, we can also find the S. Stefano Church, with its bell tower, respectively from 12th and 14th century.
We exit from Poviglio, following straight country roads, distinctive sign of Roman passage. This creation was made in order to divide fields, regulate waters and drain marshes, creating a favourable environment for agriculture and for the greatness of the newborn Roman Empire.
Almost in a straight line, we arrive in Brescello, the famous "Little World (Mondo Piccolo)" of Guareschi, the writer that created Don Camillo and Peppone. This town once was a Roman colony, called Brixellum, important fluvial port in all moments of history. This was also the birthplace of Antonio Panizzi, the famous founder ot the British Museum Library. Other remarkable places are Santa Maria Maggiore Church, San Benedetto Monastery (hosting also Don Camillo e Peppone Museum), and Archaeological Museum, exhibiting local findings.
Exiting from Brescello, riding along the embankment, we can find the confluence of Enza river inside the Po river. After around 4 km, we arrive in Boretto, actual regional port on the Po river and vital location for the Most Serene Venetian Republic for the tradings of the Republic. The unmistakable sign of the Venice passage is in the San Marco Evangelista Basilica, with the San Marco Square and the pillar with the San Marco Lion. The symbiosis of the town with the Great River is more than noticeable in the Po Museum, Casa dei Pontieri Museum, and Bonifica Multimedial Museum. Here we can truly understand what links these lands to the water.
We get out from Boretto, and still following Roman roads, we slowly come back to Poviglio.
Arriving in Poviglio:
- by car: from Reggio Emilia via SP358R di Castelnovo to Castelnovo Sotto and Poviglio. from Parma via SP62R and SP62R var.
- with public transportation: from Reggio Emilia Bus Station - CIM Piazzale Europa take bus line no. 93 to Boretto and Viadana, get off in Poviglio.
Arriving in Brescello:
- by car: from Reggio Emilia via SP358R di Castelnovo to Poviglio and Parma, and SP1 to Brescello.
- by train: from Reggio Emilia Station take the Regional train to Parma/Piacenza/Milano C.le on Milano-Bologna line and get off in Parma; here switch trains and take the Regional train to Suzzara (on the Parma-Suzzara line), then get off in Brescello.
Arriving in Boretto:
- by car: from Reggio Emilia via SP358R di Castelnovo to Poviglio and SP111 della Val d'Enza to Boretto.
- by train: from Reggio Emilia Station take the Regional train to Parma/Piacenza/Milano C.le on Milano-Bologna line and get off in Parma; here switch trains and take the Regional train to Suzzara (on the Parma-Suzzara line), then get off in Boretto.
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Disco
Poviglio is located 22 km from Reggio Emilia on main road SS63.
Turn left shortly past Villa Sesso.
From Parma, take main SS62 to the Enza River, which acts as a natural boundary between the province of Parma and the province of Reggio Emilia.
Turn right immediately past the Enza river. Poviglio is located 20 km from Parma.