Civic Museum - Via Spallanzani, 1 - 42121 Reggio Emilia
0039 0522 456477
musei@comune.re.it

History

April 10, 1938, on the Adriatic beach of Marzocco near Senigallia, 6 big sperm whales beached and then died. The smallest of them was carried aboard a truck and taken to Reggio Emilia, where it was embalmed, acquired by the Civic Museum: there, April 15, 1939, it was first exhibited and admired by several scientists from all over Europe led by Vinassa de Regny, Head Mistress of Pavia University.

Boni Pastry shop
Via Roma 28/B - 42121 Reggio Emilia
Phone 0039 0522 437367
Fax 0039 0522 455295
pasticceriaboni@bonierio.191.it
www.pasticceriabonireggioemilia.it

Ligabue Pastry shop & Cuisine
Via Emilia San Pietro, 45 - 42121 Reggio Emilia
Phone 0039 0522 439947
Fax 0039 0522 445549
info@pasticcerialigabue.it
Pasticceria Ligabue

It is the wine of excellence from Emilia, a unique expression of Italian wine culture.

It represents the most widely grown family of vines in the countryside that stretches east of Parma to include the territories of Reggio Emilia, Modena and those bordering on Mantua. An extremely agreeable sparkling wine is produced from these fragrant grapes and it is the most widely exported around the world.

The fans are divided between those who prefer the sweet or dry varieties, the aroma of violets or that of red fruits. The fine cooking of Emilia loses something of its character if not accompanied by this excellent sparkling wine.

https://www.beverfood.com/cantine/re-reggio-emilia.html

Historical Information

Historical evidence shows that already in 1200-1300, the Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese had reached its perfect typicality that has remained unchanged until the present day. Today like in the past, cheese masters continue in their effort and in their risk by sincerely and proudly persisting in making their cheese with solely milk, rennet, fire and art, and in abiding by the rigorous centuries-old methods and application of the technique that is the result of special vocations and matured experiences. The recent history of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese is essentially the history of how the approximately 350 small artisan dairies of the typical area (that encompasses about nine thousand milk producers) has obtained, by way of Law, the recognition of their determination in preserving the processing method and the very high qualitative level of the product.

Guided tours of diaries

If you are fond of Italian food, you cannot miss the chance of seeing the traditional processing techniques with your own eyes at the Parmigiano-Reggiano dairies! The guided tours can be scheduled all the year, except holidays. It's necessary a reservation. It's possible to get in touch with the Consortium more or less 1 week before the visit or to directly contact the diaries (select the province and the desired day).

The process starts at 08:00 am and takes about 2 hours. During this time you will see all stages of the productive process. At the end of the visit, in dairies with shop, you can taste and buy the cheese.

Seeing the traditional processing techniques is an experience that fascinates adults and kids, for this reason it’s recommended to everyone. The guided tours are free of charge and can be in Italian or other languages, by agreement with the relevant section office.

Events

Caseifici Aperti

Travelling time: 14 km on foot
Route length: 3 hours
Difficulty level: easy

Starting point: Via Emilia San Pietro
End point: Rivalta Palace

Route description

Starting from Reggio Emilia, past about 2 km is the Lombroso Pavilion on the left, now Psychiatry History Museum. The whole complex looks like a large park, inside which buildings of various types and periods are located.

On the opposite side, continuing for another 2 km, you will find the "Mauriziano" or "Casino dell’Ariosto", the summer home of the poet Ludovico Ariosto who resided here, as guest of the cousins ​​Malaguzzi Valeri. It is a building of the typical XV-century Emilian architecture, which houses magnificent Ariostesque rooms (called dressing rooms) on the first floor. The access avenue from via Emilia consists of a double row of ancient poplars and the unmistakable terracotta arch.

Free parking open every day 24h/24h

Car capacity: 174

The parking is connected to the town centre by shuttle bus Minibus E.
The shuttle service is free for the parking user, prior to the ticket collection.

Opening times shuttle bus

Monday-Saturday from 06:45 a.m. to 08:50 p.m.
every 12 minutes

How to collect the ticket

• Go close by car to the parkometre at the parking entrance;
• press the green button as many times as the people aboard;
• take the ticket (valid for a round trip by Minibus)

Info

840 000 216 - Call Center Seta (information on urban and extra-urban buses)   
0039 0522 927875 - 876 - 822 (about stopping, parking and ZTL)

How to get there

Enter from Via Amendola - Via Vittorio Mattei

Route: Luzzara - Guastalla - Gualtieri - Boretto - Brescello
Time: 1:22 h
Length: 20,73 km
Best time: spring through autumn

DESCRIption

This route is based upon the long-distance trails Eurovelo 8, Po Cycling Path and VenTo Cycling Trail (Venice-Turin), and it has been developed following the Po river course: this trail crosses the floodplains, connecting the five Municipalities on the river banks. From the trail it is possible to reach the town centres, admiring some stunning natural and historical places, without even get off from the bike! We can also see the "lidi" (the strands and beaches along the river, nowadays used as summer nightlife establishments), the Enza river ending into the Po river, the touristic port of Boretto, and so much more!

1st stage: Boretto

Near the main embankment of the Po river, lies the town centre of Boretto. This "comune" is the most known when it comes to mentions the Po river here in Reggio Emilia. We can find the majestic Saint Mark Basilica, the most noticeable landmark that here Venetians used to trade and reside. Remembering this major moment in history, we can also notice the pillar with St. Mark's Lion, the most distinguishable trait of the Venetian Conquest. Slowly passing above the embankment, we can discover the ancient local tradition of fluvial shipbuilding, visiting the three local museums:

• Museo del Po e della navigazione interna - PO432, hosting several boats and navigation materials;
• Casa dei Pontieri, created inside lateral structures of the pontoon bridge;
• Museo multimediale della bonifica dell’Emilia Centrale, located into the historical water management building, where we can discover the vital importance that water reclamation and management meant for these lands.

2nd stage - Brescello

Fancy discover folklore characters? Here in Brescello you can live into a cinema set, that of Don Camillo and Peppone! Pick up your bike and get in Brescello via the cycling path on the Po embankment. Strolling around this town, we can see the Don Camillo Church, the "speaking" crucifix, the Sputnik bell, the Peppone's house, and you can discover more inside the two public museums, one dedicated to the legacy of these characters, and the other one dedicated to Giovannino Guareschi (the writer that created the two characters inside his books), the territory and the impact that cinema gave on this town. Historically speaking, Brescello had a Roman past and an impressive importance throughout history, that you can discover inside the Roman Archeological Museum, with findings of the ancient Brixellum.

3rd stage - Gualtieri

Flanking the Great River, after a 40-min ride, we arrive in Gualtieri, beautiful example of little Capital of Northern Italy's Renaissance. The town follows the legacy of the Bentivoglio Family, that across two centuries in 1500 and 1600 built the main palace and the water reclamation in the surrounding marshes. North of the town, we can find the cycling path that borders the floodplain. Taking this road, we reach the place where once was the town port. Keeping this road we arrive in one of the most hidden naturalistic gem of the Pianura Padana: the Isola degli Internati (the Interned Island). This place, now a biodiversity oasis, has its name from a group of people that in 1945 had this piece of land. Those people were former prisoners during Second World War, and by giving this land, they were granted a job and a stable income by selling the wood of trees growing here. Between the Island and the port we can see some old and new pile dwellings, that in summer are lived by young people and animated by amazing events at the sunset.

Walking on the Interned Island during the dry season of Po River, we can find three shipwrecks that were bombed and sunk during a vicious fire attack in Second World War. In this misty landscape, among fog, poplars, and marshes, lived for a long time Antonio Ligabue, the painter and sculptor that here found refuge during his deep and tormented crises and was rejected by the Gualtieri community. If you want to discover more about this artist, you can find an impressive collection of Ligabue's works inside Palazzo Bentivoglio, and also inside his house, where he used to live, in Via Giardino.

4th stage - Guastalla

Going back on the Po River strand, we follow the cycling path until Guastalla, where we can admire the large floodplain, with its biodiversity, with amphibians, small predators such as wild cats, foxes, birds of prey, hedgehogs and water birds. Here, there are many ecological zones, such as Isola del Peccato (Sin Island), i Saliceti Allagati (the Flooded Willows) and the mouth of Crostolo River inside the Po river. Following Via Lido Po, we can reach the town centre of Guastalla and visit the beautiful Palazzo Ducale, home of a branch of Gonzaga Family and many more places that represented the noble power on these counties.

5th stage - Luzzara

We end this route in the last town of the Reggio Emilia Plain before the Province of Mantua. This town is Luzzara, hometown of Cesare Zavattini: screenwriter, journalist, writer, poet, painter and ineluctable character for Italian Neorealist cinema. Together with Paul Strand, he created the photography book "Un Paese - A Town", dedicated entirely to the ending rural community of Luzzara, at the end of the Sixties. At the centre of the town we can find the Civic Tower, with an estimated height of 55 meters (said to be the tallest tower in the Reggio Emilia Plain, beating the Bell Tower of Novellara), also with the beautiful St. George's Church in Romanic style. Nearby, in the hamlet of Villarotta, we can find the Museo del Truciolo, that created straw hats for centuries. Into the floodplains we can surely admire the local biodiversity and have a taste of adrenaline, with River Park: a tree-climbing park with activities for all people, from kids-friendly to high-adrenaline moments.

Itinerary stages

practical INFORMAtION

Tourist office: IAT Guastalla - (+39) 0522 839763.

Bicycle Rent: 

• Guastalla, Locanda dei Pontieri, Viale Po 11/13
• Boretto, River Passion, Via Argine 17
• Gualtieri, Pro Loco, Piazza Bentivoglio.

Before starting, download the free app "Terre di Po in Bici": you can find the updated route and the map also available offline.

Consultant to the Italian Ministry of Education, director of the education magazines Zerosei and Bambini, in 1980 he founded the National Early Childhood Group in Reggio Emilia. In 1991 the magazine Newsweek mentioned the Early Childhood School "Diana", representing Reggio Emilia nursery and early childhood schools, among the 10 best schools of the world.

Loris Malaguzzi died January 30, 1994.

Holiday farm with accommodation

The Dosso al Porto farmhouse is located in the green Reggio Emilia countryside. The rooms, of different types, are located in the farmhouse built with exposed stone walls typical of the Reggio Emilia country houses of the late XIX and early XX centuries. Over the years, the farmhouse has specialized in the production of pears and grapes for Lambrusco.

Opening period: all year

Viale Trattati di Roma - 42124 Reggio nell'Emilia

Description

Completely restored and placed in a large roundabout along Viale Trattati di Roma, near Calatrava's Bridges and Mediopadana AV High-Speed Railway Station, the sculpture is an example of the talent of Franco Reggiani (Reggio Emilia, 1926-1991), worldwide-famous artist and designer.

Phone
0039 0522 1935447

E-mail
pareti@pareti.it

Website
A1 Climbing

Prices
see website

Weekday opening times
Monday-Friday 12.30 - 3.00 p.m. and 5.00 - 10.30 p.m. (exit at 10.00 p.m.); Saturday 3.00 - 7.00 p.m.

Weekly closure
Sunday.

How to get there
by car: take "Reggio Emilia" A1 parkway exit, then take Via Morandi at the first roundabout. At the second roundabout take the first street on the right, then at the third roundabout turn left to Via Meuccio Ruini. Then, right at next roundabout (Via Gramsci). Cross under the freeway then go left following Via Faiti then Via Candelù signs.

All year: basic courses for adults, collective or personal, and course for children and teenagers (afternoon).

Fontanesi was born in Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, and trained with the landscape painters Prospero Minghetti and Vincenzo Carnevali. From 1841 to 1846 he made theatre sets and began painting landscapes. In 1848, he joined a group of Garibaldian volunteers, that went to Milan to fight with the Manara Legion, against the Austrians. In 1859, he briefly joined Cavour's armed forces in Bologna. In 1850, he moved to Geneva, where he stayed until 1865. His main area of interest was landscape painting, which he expanded after visiting the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris. In 1863, he tried to settle in London, but found few commissions of work. He completed a series of watercolors of paintings in the National Gallery. He returned to Florence, where he stayed with the fellow painter Cristiano Banti.

He participated in important artistic exhibitions, displaying his works in Lyon, Turin, Milan, Florence, Genoa and the Triennial Exhibition of Fine Art in Bologna. He was nominated professor at the Academy of Lucca, but moved to Turin when a chair as a landscape professor was created especially for him at the Accademia Albertina in Turin from 1869 to 1876. Among his pupils was Carlo Follini. In 1876, the Technical Fine Arts School (Kobu Bijutsu Gakko), an art school of painting and sculpture, was founded in Tokyo under the supervision of the Ministry of Industry. It was the first governmental art school founded in Japan. Upon recommendation of the Italian minister in Tokyo, Count Alessandro Fè d'Ostiani, the Meiji government contracted three Italian artists as foreign advisors: Vincenzo Ragusa (1841-1927) for sculpture, Antonio Fontanesi for drawing and Giovanni Cappelletti (who died in 1885) for the preparatory course. The trio greatly influenced the development of Japanese art and architecture through the next several decades.

The acceptance of teachers in art from Italy alone was based on the unofficial government policy of accepting military advice from France, industrial advice from Great Britain, agricultural advice from the United States, and legal and medical advice from Germany. Fontanesi introduced the techniques of charcoal, crayon and oil paints to his Japanese students, who included Asai Chū and Yamamoto Hosui. He also taught western concepts of perspective, anatomy and sketching from life. His career in Japan was cut short by serious illness, which forced him to return to Italy in 1878.

Deepening

• Galleria Fontanesi – Musei Civici 
• References

La solitudine by Antonio Fontanesi

Liceo "Chierici" Multimedia, LA SOLITUDINE di Fontanesi, video realizzato da Stella Vernia, classe 3^ E Multimediale (a.s. 2015-2016) Liceo Artistico "G. Chierici" di Reggio Emilia.