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25 unusual facts about Romagna


Aldrovandi

Aldrovandi is a family name of the Emilia-Romagna in Italy, and especially from Bologna.

Alida Chelli

Born in Carpi as Alida Rustichelli, Chelli was daughter of composer Carlo Rustichelli.

Angela Hartnett

Angela Hartnett was born in Kent to Patrick Hartnett, an Irish sailor in the Merchant Navy and Giuliana, a Welsh mother whose parents had migrated from Bardi in Italy to the Welsh town of Ferndale.

Argenta, Emilia–Romagna

In 1923 a Fascist squad murdered a Catholic priest, don Giovanni Minzoni, an anti-fascist and the voice of the poor farmers in Romagna, as well as a friend of several socialist politicians like Natale Galba.

Bardi, Emilia-Romagna

In 1269 the castle was stormed by the Guelphs, and the commune of Piacenza held it until 1307, when Emperor Henry VII gave it back to Umbertino II Landi.

Galeazzo I Visconti of Milan obtained a notable victory over the Guelphs in the nearby on November 29, 1321.

In 1257 the Ghibelline Landi of Piacenza acquired it, remaining lord of Bardi for the following four centuries.

Bentivoglio, Emilia-Romagna

Bentivoglio borders the following municipalities: Argelato, Castel Maggiore, Granarolo dell'Emilia, Malalbergo, Minerbio, San Giorgio di Piano, San Pietro in Casale.

Bonifacio Asioli

Bonifazio Asioli (b. April 30, 1769—d. May 26, 1832 both in Correggio, Italy) was a composer of classical and church music.

Carpi, Emilia-Romagna

Carpi is distinguished by its great Renaissance square (piazza), the largest in the region.

Correggio, Emilia-Romagna

It was the seat of Veronica Gambara (1485–1550) a noted politician poet who ruled the principality after the death of her husband Giberto X, Count of Correggio, from 1518 to 1550.

It is also the birthplace of composer Bonifazio Asioli, the world famous flautist Andrea Griminelli, the pedagogue Loris Malaguzzi, the Venetian School composer Claudio Merulo, the rock singer Luciano Ligabue, the famously disqualified 1908 Summer Olympics marathon runner Dorando Pietri, and the novelist Pier Vittorio Tondelli.

Elections in Veneto

Rovigo, the southernmost province, was influenced by nearby "red" Emilia-Romagna.

Gabriele Manfredi

He was the son of Alfonso Manfredi, a notary from Lugo, Emilia-Romagna, and Anna Maria Fiorini.

Girolamo Belli

Belli was born in Argenta, a town southeast of Ferrara, between Ferrara and Ravenna, and received some of his early music instruction from Luzzaschi.

Giulio Belli

For the rest of his life he worked in a number of Italian cities in a similar capacity: in Carpi (1591), Venice, at Cà Grande (1594 or 1595), Montagnana (1595), Ferrara (1597), Osimo (1599), Ravenna (1600), Reggio (1603), Forlì (later in 1603).

Gregorio Paltrinieri

Gregorio Paltrinieri (Carpi, 5 September 1994) is a male Italian swimmer who won the gold medal in the 1500 m freestyle event at 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) and 2012 European Aquatics Championships.

Morselli

As of 2013, in Italy there are approximately 1,200 people with the surname Morselli, approximately half of which reside in Emilia-Romagna.

President of Emilia-Romagna

Originally appointed by the Regional Council of Emilia-Romagna, since 1995 de facto and 2000 de jure, he is elected by popular vote every five years under universal suffrage: the candidate who receives a plurality of votes, is elected.

RedSka

RedSka is an Italian ska-punk band formed in 2001 in Romagna, Italy.

Sammarinese cuisine

As San Marino is a microstate completely landlocked by Italy, Sammarinese cuisine is strongly similar to the Italian cuisine, especially that of the adjoining Emilia-Romagna and Marche regions.

Santa Sofia, Emilia–Romagna

Santa Sofia borders the following municipalities: Bagno di Romagna, Civitella di Romagna, Galeata, Pratovecchio, Premilcuore, San Godenzo, Sarsina, Stia.

Veronica Gambara

In 1509, at the age of 24, she married her cousin, the 50-year-old widower Giberto X, Count of Correggio, in Amalfi.

Via Aemilia

The boundaries of the Roman VIII regio roughly corresponded to those of the modern Italian administrative region of Emilia-Romagna.

Wei Yanan

Instead, she made her European debut in October at the Maratona d'Italia in Carpi and was the runner-up behind Rosaria Console.


A.S.D. Verucchio

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Verucchio is an Italian association football club located in Verucchio, Emilia-Romagna.

A.S.D. Virtus Pavullese

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Virtus Pavullese is an Italian association football club located in Pavullo nel Frignano, Emilia-Romagna.

Agata

Sant'Agata Bolognese, an Italian commune in the province of Emilia Romagna

Alidosi family

The Alidosi or Alodosi are a family of Romagna, Italy, who held the signoria of the city of Imola during the Late Middle Ages.

Aliettite

It was first described in 1968 for an occurrence in Monte Chiaro, Albareto, Parma Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy and named for the Italian mineralogist Andrea Alietti (born 1923).

Bagnara di Romagna

Bagnara di Romagna borders the following municipalities: Cotignola, Imola, Lugo, Mordano, Solarolo.

Bagno di Romagna

Bagno di Romagna borders the following municipalities: Bibbiena, Chiusi della Verna, Mercato Saraceno, Poppi, Pratovecchio, Santa Sofia, Sarsina, Verghereto.

Cinzio Passeri Aldobrandini

In some documents he is known as Cinzio Passeri Aldobrandini because, after settling in Romagna, the family varied its name according to the place from which they had moved - his father Aurelio Personeni was born in Cà Personeni (frazione of Bedulita in the province of Bergamo) and later Aurelio's family moved to Cà Passero (frazione of Berbenno in the province of Bergamo); as a merchant, Aurelio moved to Senigallia, where he married.

Civitella di Romagna

Civitella di Romagna borders the following municipalities: Cesena, Galeata, Meldola, Predappio, Santa Sofia, Sarsina.

Emilio Diena

In addition to writing numerous articles in philatelic journals, Diena wrote in great detail on stamps of Modena, Romagna, Sicily, Parma, and Naples during the 1920s and 1930s.

Forum Popilii

During the 14th century, Romagna was at the mercy of petty tyrants and Forlimpopoli was ruled by the Ordelaffi of Forlì.

Francesco I Manfredi

He was the son of Alberghetto (or Alberghettino) Manfredi, one of the main Guelph leader of Romagna, from whom he inherited the lordships of Brisighella, Quarneto and Baccagnano, to which Francesco added other lands starting from 1309.

Franco Sacchetti

In 1398 he received from his fellow-citizens the post of captain of their then province of Romagna, having his residence at Portico.

Granarolo dell'Emilia

Granarolo dell'Emilia (Granarôl in the Bolognese dialect) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Bologna in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 10 km northeast of Bologna.

House of Malatesta

In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the Malatestas ruled over a number of cities in the Romagna and the Marche, including Pesaro, Fano, Cesena, Fossombrone and Cervia.

The House of Malatesta was an Italian family that ruled over Rimini from 1295 until 1500, as well as (in different periods) other lands and towns in Romagna.

Mercato

Mercato Saraceno, a municipality of the Province of Forlì-Cesena, Emilia-Romagna

Niccolò Fortebraccio

Giovanni Vitelleschi was sent against him, but as he was called to quench a revolt in Romagna, Fortebraccio managed to capture Tivoli.

Nicholas Burgess Farrell

He worked as journalist for the Sunday Telegraph from 1987 to 1996, later moving to The Spectator from April 1996 to July 1998; Farrell then moved to Forlì, Italy, married an Italian woman and joined the Italian journalist association, at first working for the local newspaper "La voce di Romagna" and later for "Libero".

Pol. Virtus Castelfranco Calcio

Polisportiva Virtus Castelfranco Calcio is an Italian association football club located in Castelfranco Emilia, Emilia-Romagna.

Popes during the Age of Revolution

The price of persuading the French intruder to head north again, agreed in the Treaty of Tolentino, was a massive indemnity, the removal of many works of art from the Vatican collections and the surrender to France of Bologna, Ferrara and the Romagna.

Riserva naturale orientata Parma Morta

The Natural Reserve Parma Morta is located in Emilia-Romagna in the commune of Mezzani (Province of Parma| Parma), and was established in 1990.

Romagnola chicken

It was once widespread in central Italy, particularly in the provinces of Ravenna, Forlì-Cesena and Bologna in Emilia-Romagna.

Rovigo railway station

Trains depart frequently from Rovigo for Venezia and Bologna, and there are numerous regional trains (R) to every part of the Veneto/Lombardy/Emilia-Romagna area, especially during peak hours.

S.P. Reno Centese A.S.D.

Società Polisportiva Reno Centese Associazione Sportiva Dilettante is an Italian association football club from Reno Centese, frazione of Cento, Emilia-Romagna.

Santarcangelo

Santarcangelo Calcio, an Italian association football club, based in Santarcangelo di Romagna.

Savignano

Savignano sul Panaro, a municipality in the Province of Modena, Emilia-Romagna

Vasco Errani

In 2012 during the earthquakes in Emilia, Errani was nominated special commissioner for the reconstruction, by the Prime Minister Monti and the chief the Protezione Civile Franco Gabrielli.

Vincenzo Monti

Monti was born in Alfonsine, Province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna the son of Fedele and Domenica Maria Mazzari, landowners.

Walter Reder

In October 1951, Reder was sentenced to life imprisonment at Gaeta fortress prison, on the coast north of Naples, for ordering the destruction of Marzabotto and other villages near Bologna during the anti-partisan sweeps and for ordering the execution of Italian civilians in Tuscany and Emilia during the same period.