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Journey to Gualtieri - September. Culture, landscape, food and wine. Performances, concerts, extraordinary openings, guided tours, dinners and nature trails to discover and rediscover the hidden places and stories of one of the most beautiful villages of Italy. October Festival - third Sunday of October. Tastings and sale of local food and wine ...
- Piazza Bentivoglio, 36-Gualtieri (RE), - Gualtieri
- proloco-gualtieri@libero.it
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Gualtieri (Mantovano: Gualtēr) is a comune (municipality) in the province of Reggio Emilia, in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, located about 70 kilometres (43 mi) northwest of Bologna and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of Reggio Emilia on the right bank of the Po river. Historically, it suffered numerous floods, the last occurring in 1951.
The Palazzo houses the "Documentary Museum and Antonio Ligabue Study Center", dedicated to the works of the famous twentieth century painter who was born in Zurich and lived in Gualtieri. The Collegiate Church of Santa Maria della Neve also faces onto Piazza Bentivoglio, built on a design by Argenta but totally destroyed by a flood and rebuilt in the 18th century.
Overview. A village along the banks of the Po on the border with Lombardy, Gualtieri intertwines its history with that of the painter Antonio Ligabue, who had his roots here and was buried here. An artist with a complex personality, Ligabue had a difficult life, always poised between art and suffering: today his life is recounted by the Museum ...
Gualtieri is also sadly known for two great floods that occurred here, one in 1765, which exceeded 3.50 meters in the square, while the other, in 1951, reached 3.80 meters and of which the monuments in the square still bear memory.
Nov 6, 2014 · Gualtieri. Places and Culture. This is a small jewel of Reggio’s low land, a town that reached the highest point of its evolution under the Bentivoglio family rule, from 1567 to 1634. the family entrusted G.B. Aleotti, better known as “Argenta”, with the construction of a great square, with perfect proportions and harmonious porticos that ...
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Nationality. Italian-American. Peter Paul " Paulie Walnuts " Gualtieri is a fictional character portrayed by Tony Sirico on the HBO series The Sopranos, one of the chief henchmen of series protagonist Tony Soprano. Sirico auditioned for the role of Uncle Junior with Frank Vincent, but Dominic Chianese landed the role.
