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Information about Bagnolo In Piano, Emilia Romagna

Industrial and agricultural centre situated 8 km from Reggio Emilia

The first evidence of human settlement in the area dates from the 2nd century BC. This was contemporaneous with the gradual process of land reclamation from a vast marshy area which originally extended north from Reggio Emilia to the river Po called the “Bondeno”.
In the period between the 11th and 14th centuries the area remained under the jurisdiction of the Benedictine monks of the San Prospero monastery. In 1335 the monastery was destroyed and the land passed to the Gonzaga family. Later the town came under the rule of the Este family of Modena, continuing up to the end of the 18th century. Their rule was interrupted by the well-known series of events connected to the French Revolution. During this latter period the local council area was split in two (Bagnolo and San Tommaso), both parts then to be united with Reggio Emilia in 1814. These days Bagnolo in Piano displays a renewed confidence and belief both in its past and its future, with the recovery and protection of its historic past on the one hand and its development of modern architecture and town planning on the other.

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