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Information about Gattatico in the Province of Reggio Emilia

The town has its Town Hall in the district of Praticello where the “Museo Cervi” (Cervi Museum) is situated. It has been set up in the country house where the 7 Cervi brothers were arrested in November 1943, then to be shot by the Nazis on 28 November 1943 for having organised the first cells of the Resistance in the Reggio Emilia area.

Gattatico takes its name from the district in which the local council was based up to 1872. The Town Hall was then transferred to Praticello, chosen as its political and administrative headquarters because of its central position within the area as a whole. There is a long history of human settlement in this locality, first having been inhabited by the Cenomanic Gauls and then by the Romans who founded Tannetum here, an important centre particularly during the Augustan period. During the High Middle Ages significant land reclamation works were carried out, often using prisoners (“Captati”) for the labour. “Captati” was the origin for the present-day name Gattatico. Having been described with the names of “Farnese”, “Sforzesca”, “Papale, “Francese” and “Austriaca”, the town was given the status of “Comune” (local council) in 1805 and in 1853 it formally became part of the Diocese of Reggio Emilia.

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