Tresigallo (Ferrarese: Trasgàl) is an Italian municipality in the province of Ferrara, which is in the region of Emilia-Romagna. It has about 4,700 inhabitants.

Tresigallo
Comune di Tresigallo
Coat of arms of Tresigallo
Location of Tresigallo
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Tresigallo is located in Italy
Tresigallo
Tresigallo
Location of Tresigallo in Italy
Tresigallo is located in Emilia-Romagna
Tresigallo
Tresigallo
Tresigallo (Emilia-Romagna)
Coordinates: 44°49′N 11°54′E / 44.817°N 11.900°E / 44.817; 11.900
CountryItaly
RegionEmilia-Romagna
ProvinceProvince of Ferrara (FE)
Government
 • MayorMaurizio Barbirati
Area
 • Total20 km2 (8 sq mi)
Elevation
4 m (13 ft)
Population
 (31 May 2007)[2]
 • Total4,662
 • Density230/km2 (600/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
44039
Dialing code0533
WebsiteOfficial website

Despite its medieval origins, to which only a 16th-century palace (Palazzo Pio) of the House of Este bears witness today, it was transformed by the Fascist Minister of Agriculture Edmondo Rossoni, who was born in Tresigallo in 1884. From his ministry in Rome, he developed and supervised the new village map, completely rebuilding it as a utopian city from 1927 to 1934.[3][4][5] Two axes were drawn across the town in order to link the main aspects of everyday life: on the horizontal axis there was the Church (spirituality) and the Balilla House, a youth center, renamed Casa della G.I.L (Gioventù Italiana del Littorio); on the vertical axis there was the civic centre (everyday life) and the cemetery (memory).

References edit

  1. ^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  3. ^ Sakalis, Alex (9 September 2022). "The Curious Afterlife of a Fascist Utopia". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
  4. ^ Brugnatti, Davide; Muroni, Giuseppe (2020). "Edmondo Rossoni and Tresigallo: An Atypical Case of a Regime Town". Ex Novo: Journal of Archaeology. 5: 33–45. doi:10.32028/exnovo.v5i.410. ISSN 2531-8810.
  5. ^ Muroni, Stefano (2016). Tresigallo, città di fondazione : Edmondo Rossoni e la storia di un sogno (in Italian). Bologna: Pendragon. ISBN 978-88-3364-985-6. OCLC 1055462507.