![]() ![]() And as such it already appeared in its day when its function was simultaneously that of public square and courtyard of honour for the palace (today occupied by a large garden). According to the art historian Cesare Brandi, this is one of the most beautiful squares in Italy. Moving forward, after crossing the threshold of the civic tower, the magnificent and bright square space of Piazza Bentivoglio (1594-1600) opens up in all its symbolic power before visitors. About 6 kilometres (4 mi) outside Gualtieri, on the road to Reggio Emilia, is the 18th-century Palazzo Greppi. Other sights include the 13th-century church of Sant'Andrea and the 16th-century church Chiesa della Concezione. ![]() Maria della Neve, again designed by Aleotti but remade after its destruction from a flood, which houses a Crucifixion by Camillo Ricci. Also facing the square is the Collegiata di S. The latter has 17th-century decorations and houses a museum dedicated to the painter Antonio Ligabue. As you approach the main square, the arch of the entrance of the tower lets you glimpse the façade of Gualtieri's main attraction: its Renaissance square Piazza Bentivoglio, designed by Giovanni Battista Aleotti (also responsible of the Palazzo Bentivoglio, which was the residence of the Marquisses of Gualtieri). Starting from Piazza Cavallotti and along Via Vittorio Emanuele II, we are inserted in a long perspective channel, closed at the bottom of the civic tower. From the winter fog in the woods right behind the floodplains of the Po the ghost of Ligabue emerges, where he lived wildly with the leopards of his imagination. Today we may still appreciate the De Chirico-esque atmospheres, found in the long shadow of the arcades, under whose arches we may hide from the summer heat. The designers, experts of theatrical arts in Ferrara, wanted to involve the audience in a symbolic and extraordinarily powerful production. The palace stands in a square, beyond which the Po lies, giving rise to a sophisticated play of perspective and theatrical ambition. One of the minor Po Valley capitals, it boasted a small court yet well equipped by the Bentivoglio marquises, masters of water and reclamation techniques. Gualtieri is surrounded by water and earth landscapes. He is considered the most important naïve painter in Italy. 1965, Antonio Ligabue dies near Gualtieri.1872, the most powerful flood of the 19th century was preceded by that of 1765 and then followed by the last disastrous flood of the Po in 1951.with the introduction of new methods in the cultivation of rice and tobacco occupying hundreds of day labourers. 1769, the entrepreneur Antonio Greppi from Milan starts a flourishing agricultural company in Santa Vittoria di Gualtieri based on the physiocratic principles of the Enlightenment, i.e.1634, Enzo Bentivoglio, heir to the marquisate, returns the fief of Gualtieri to the Ducal Chamber of Modena.The Bentivoglio Reclamation(1566-1618) is considered the most important hydraulic reclamation of the lower Po Plain until the 19th century. The renovation was completed by his son Ippolito in 1604. In the renovation of the territories, Cornelio Bentoviglio was helped by the collaboration of Giovan Battista Aleotti, an architect expert in military constructions and the hydraulic sciences. 1575, the fief of Gualtieri becomes a marquisate.1567, Cornelio Bentivoglio, the heir of one of the most important patrician families of Bologna, receives the territory of Gualtieri in fief from the duke Alfonso II d’Este as a reward for his commitment to the decontamination of the lowlands of Reggio.They then cede it to the dukedom of Ferrara in 1479. 1435, Gualtieri becomes a part of the Parmesan domains owned by the Sforza, the dukes of Milan.885, date of the first certain document relating to Castrum Valterii ( Castel Gualtieri).The signs of centuriation still are evident not far from Brescello (Brixellum), a village around which the settlement of Gualtieri revolved until the Lombard Age. In the 2nd century BC, with Roman colonisation, the territory was split up. Origins of the name Īccording to historians, the name ‘Castrum Valterii’ is linked to Longobard ‘Gualtiero’ (equivalent to English Walter), who was sent by King Agilulf in 602 to conquer Mantua. It is a member of the I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy") association. Historically, it suffered numerous floods, the last occurring in 1951. Gualtieri ( Mantovano: Gualtēr) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Reggio Emilia in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 70 kilometres (43 mi) northwest of Bologna and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of Reggio Emilia on the right bank of the Po River. ![]()
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