Castelfranco Emilia
Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Template:Expand Italian Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Castelfranco Emilia (Western Bolognese: Script error: No such module "Lang".; Modenese: Script error: No such module "Lang".) is a town and comune in Modena, Emilia-Romagna, north-central Italy. The town lies about Template:Convert northwest of Bologna.
Castelfranco either occupies or lies near the site of the ancient Forum Gallorum, a place on the via Aemilia between Modena and Bologna. Near the town, on 14 April 43 BC, Octavian and Hirtius defeated Mark Antony in a battle during the War of Mutina.[1][2] The village never gained prominence in ancient times. While it was included in the Tabula Peutingeriana, it was omitted from all other Roman road itineraries.[3]
A fortress was built just outside the town in 1628–34 by Pope Urban VIII as a northern defensive bastion for the Papal States. By the late 19th century, the fortress had been converted to a prison.[1] In 1861 it was joined with the former comune of Piumazzo. This town is home of the tortellini, a typical Italian food. In this region lambrusco wine is also produced. The church of Santa Maria Assunta houses Assumption of the Virgin by Guido Reni.
People
- Alfonsina Strada, the only woman ever to compete in the male Giro d'Italia (1924)
- Valerio Massimo Manfredi, historian, archaeologist and journalist (1943)
- Cécile Kyenge, Italian-Congolese politician and current Member of the European Parliament (1983)
Twin towns
- Template:Flagicon Marktredwitz, Germany, since 1997
Sources
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