Brescello

Brescello is a common of the Province of Reggio of Emilie in the Emilie-Romagna in Italy.

Geography

Brescello occupies approximately 25 square kilometers and is distant of 28 kilometers Reggio of Emilie and 20 kilometers of Parma. In the vicinity the river Enza passes.

History

The origins of Brescello go up at the time prehistoric as show it the discoveries made in the localities of Ravisa di San Genesio and Motta Balestri. Many objects are exposed to the archaeological museum.

The Gallic cénomans, resulting from the Cimbres, is the first to be established in a permanent way in this zone of the valley of the Po and names it Brixellum , which comes from Celtic “the briga” (height) and “concealed” (the temple), i.e. the temple on the height, which is without-doubt also the etymology of the town of Brussels.

Brescello becomes a Roman colony towards -190 - -189, populated by Arnense, coming from the Latium. Brescello is an important economic and strategic center, located at a key point along the course of the river. During, Brescello develops and becomes a city rich and populated with its forum and its aqueduct and various administrations and corporations.

Following the decline of the Roman Empire starting from the 3rd century, the périclite city slowly and is the subject of plunderings and destruction (it is plundered into 227). In spite of the political crisis and economic, Brescello becomes seat of évêché into 389. The first bishop is Genesio, today patron saint of the commune.

In 572, the city is occupied by the Lombards which transforms it into duchy. Between Brescello is implied in a permanent conflict between the Exarchat de Ravenne and the barbarians who invade the plain of Po. The devastations caused by the troops of the king Agilulf, into 603, and by several catastrophic floods, into 589 and towards 605-610, involve the Gallo-Roman disappearance of Brixellum.

In first half of the 12th century, a castle-extremely rises on the old site of Brixillum for the defense and the control of the river traffic. Thereafter, of important monastic orders, like that of the Benedictines, are established there.

At the 12th century, Brescello depends politically on Parma whereas during the following centuries, the history of the village reflects the alternation of various dominations: the family of the Correggeschi, the Rossi, the Visconti, the Sforza, until the Este in 1479.

The bloody battles to conquer the city lead Este to design and build a pentagonal wall enclosure with a ditch, making of Brescello a fortress city. The new city is then called, “herculéenne”, in the honor of Hercules II of Este. In 1704, the wall and the fortress of Brescello are destroyed by the Spaniards and the village is inserted again in anonymity for more than one century. The city belongs to the House of Este until the 1861, year during which Brescello belongs to the Royaume of Italy like other cities of the Reggio of Emilie.

Brescello and Don Camillo

Brescello is the village where the action of the films Don Camillo is. At the entry of the village of the panels show the characters created by Giovannino Guareschi and interpreted by Gino Cervi and Fernandel, Peppone and Don Camillo. Brescello was the natural scene where the realizer Julien Duvivier filmed the first Gift Camillo (1951). The series of film was supplemented by four other films.

The bronze statue of Peppone at the entry of the town hall and, at the entry of the church, that of Gift Camillo, are works of Andrea Zangani. Opposite with the town hall and the bar Gift Camillo, one sees a copy of the large statue of Ercole Benefattore of Jacopo Tatti (16th century). Beside the Matteotti place, in a big room of Central Farming San Benedetto (ex monastery, 15th century), is the museum Peppone and Don Camillo (1989), with many objects, memories, documents. Beside the museum, one can see the tank Pershing M26, the place Giovannino Guareschi and the entry of the archaeological museum. A tourist route brings the visitor in each cinematographic place having survived time, like the house of Peppone and the house and the bell of Gift Camillo, the stopping of the train, the Madonna de Borghetto.

Events

Since 2002, a cinematographic festival annual in June (Matteotti place), Brescello Film Festival

Personalities

Mario Nizolio (Brescello, 1488 - Sabbioneta, 1567), Humanistic and philosopher.
Antonio Panizzi (Brescello, 1787 - London 1870), intellectual, patriot, senator of the Kingdom of Italy, director of the British Museum of London. The communal library bears its name.
Carlo Zatti (Brescello, 1809 - 1899), painter
Carlo Pisi (Poviglio, 1897 - Brescello 1979), sculptor.

Economy

Culture

Festivals, fairs

-->

Administration

Hamlets

Confine Svizzero, Coenzo has Mane, Ghiarole, Lentigione, Sorbolo has Mane

Communes bordering

Boretto, Gattatico, Mezzani, Poviglio, Sorbolo, Viadana

Satellite sight WikiMapia

Random links: