Tresigallo

Comune in Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Coat of arms

Location of Tresigallo

44°49′N 11°54′E / 44.817°N 11.900°E / 44.817; 11.900CountryItalyRegionEmilia-RomagnaProvinceProvince of Ferrara (FE)Government

• MayorMaurizio BarbiratiArea

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• 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 code0533WebsiteOfficial website

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.

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).

Palazzo Pio
House of Culture
Town hall
Former police
Entrance to the sports complex
Cemetery

References

^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
^ "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
^ Sakalis, Alex (9 September 2022). "The Curious Afterlife of a Fascist Utopia". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
^ 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.
^ 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.