SCANDIANO:
Scandiano is the most populous municipality in the province of Reggio Emilia after the chief town and one of the great economic centers. Its patrimony of history and art shapes it as a true "small capital",among the most interesting of the region. The first documentations on Scandiano, departing from the most ancient (testified by numerous archaeological finds, among which the famous Venus of Chiozza, sculpture feminine neolitica today to the Civic Museums of Reggio Emilia) periods, they go up again to the first halves the XIII century. The actual installation has origin in 1262 when Gilberto Fogliani built a castle around which different families were established coming from the demolished Castellazzo of Pratissolo together with escaped guelfi defeated to Montaperti (1260) from Farinata of the Ubertis. Among 500 and the 700 Scandiano it knew moments of great vitality and all those people who governed it, from the Boiardos to the Thienes, from the Bentivoglios to the Estes, they enriched the suburb of small fortress and constructions.
The so-called one "Venus of Chiozza." Female figurine of sandstone that the researchers date to the Paleolitico or to the Neolitico; it is preserved in the Civic Museum of Reggio Emilia.LA ROCCA:
One of the places of great artistic interest of the territory of Scandiano are certainly the castle the Fortress of the Boiardos. It is the first building cell of the country and has been, for eight centuries, the symbol of the political power.The architectural complex, that develops him on a surface of 5000 m2s, has suffered in the time many remaking. It in fact, been born in 1315 as defensive building with the From Fogliano, it was turned into ladylike abode by the family Boiardo and finally in Renaissance building from the marquises Thiene and from the principles of Este (1645 -1726). In the building they cohabit and medieval (tower pusterla of the entry north and hanging bows of the courtyard), Renaissance (portico of the courtyard) and Baroque (staircase, bifore, architravate of the courtyard, decorations to plaster of the apartment estense) architectural structures can be admired.
The whole history of Scandiano and its people is developed inside the castle. In a room of the first floor of the building, the poet Matteo Maria Boiardo was born; in the undergrounds it was usual to complete his experiments the great Lazzaro Spallanzani. They lodged to the castle the poet Francesco Petrarca, the reformer Giovanni Calvino and Pope Paolo III.OTHER PICTURES OF SCANDIANO:
we will be very happy to know your city.....hoping to see it as soon as possible...a warm regard!!!francesca pagano from class 4°f