RIGA SCANDIANO

THIS IS WHERE WE LIVE......SCANDIANO!!

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