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Novellara (Reggiano: Nualera or Nuvalêra) is a town and comune in the province of Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy and has a population of 13,670. It is 18 kilometres (11 miles) north of Reggio Emilia and has a railway station for the local train going from Reggio to Guastalla.

History[edit]

The current name comes from the medieval Nubilaria, when the surrounding terrain was mostly covered by marshes, which favoured the formation of recurring fogs.

The town was the seat of the Gonzaga family from the 13th century: here Guido Gonzaga, in the early 14th century, created an effectively independent lordship, which later evolved into the County of Novellara and Bagnolo, including grossly what is now the communal territory of Novellara and the nearby Bagnolo in Piano.

After the Gonzaga's end, in 1728, the town passed to the Este of the Duchy of Modena, whose history Novellara followed until 1859, when it was annexed to the newly unified Italy.

Main sights[edit]

• The Jesuit Convent
• Chiesa Collegiata di Santo Stefano
• The Rocca Gonzaga ('Gonzaga Castle'). This was built by Feltrino Gonzaga starting from 1350, most likely over a pre-existing fortifications from Lombard times.
• The Casino di Sotto and Casino di Sopra, summer residences of the Gonzagas. The Gonzaga Museum houses a rare 16th century vases collection.
• The main square (Piazza Unità d'Italia) with the Church of St. Stephen, important work by Lelio Orsi.

In addition to this, Novellara is also home to the second largest gurdwara in Europe. This reflects the presence of a very large Sikh community, living in Novellara and nearby places, where they work mainly in cattle farms and dairies, where Parmigiano Reggiano is made.^[4]

As in other towns of the region, (e.g. Bologna), streets are lined with characteristic arcades, intended to offer shade in summer and shelter from rain or snow.

Famous people[edit]

• Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, duchess of Modena, Reggio, Massa and Carrara, was born here in 1725.
• Augusto Daolio, (1947-1992) singer and founder of the Nomadi band.
• Vittorio Marchi, (1851–1908), histologist
• Lelio Orsi, 16th century painter
• Luciano Pigozzi, film actor
• Giaches de Wert, composer of the Renaissance, lived and raised his family here from about 1550 to 1565.

Baldassare Castiglione, famous humanist philosopher who was a count in Novellara.

Twin towns - sister cities[edit]

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Novellara is twinned with:^[5]

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• Nový Jičín, Czech Republic
• Neve Shalom, Israel
• Sancti Spíritus, Cuba
• Santa Gertrudes, Brazil
• Santo Stefano di Cadore, Italy

References[edit]

1. ^'Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011'. Istat. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
2. ^'Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018'. Istat. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
3. ^Population data from Istat
4. ^Mitzman, Dany (25 June 2015). 'The Sikhs who Saved Parmesan'. BBC Online Magazine. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
5. ^'Gemellaggi e Patti d'Amicizia'. comune.novellara.re.it (in Italian). Novellara. Retrieved 2019-12-18.

Private property

On the west border of Novellara, heading towards Guastalla along Via Azelio, you find the Casino di Sotto on your right, situated among the first houses of the town, on your east and farmland to your north and west. The building has around two and a half hectares of connected land, what remains of the twenty-hectare estate that belonged to the Gonzaga family. The property is screened from the road to Guastalla by a box hedgerow and the entrance to the building, which is a rough L shape and has a main east-west body featuring a loggia passing through three archways (today with glass windows), is along an avenue lined by two rows of plane trees, which retraces the 16th century route and outlines the garden symmetrically. The rows of trees, with European spruce to the west and poplars to the east, are interrupted at the fence that has surrounded the garden closest to the residence since 1920, when the original moat was filled in. Beyond the gate on the right of the avenue, there is an orchard and, on the left, a lawn with trees, cut off from the surrounding countryside by a row of horse chestnuts. In front of the Casino, there are a cedar of Lebanon, some yews, black pines and a magnolia almost 100 years old. The north façade of the building looks over another portion of garden, half the length it used to be: a tree-lined lawn with two ancient hazelnuts either side of the steps leading up to the loggia. The current garden structure still reflects to a great degree that created in 1910 by a Piedmontese architect, upon commission by the Lombardini family, and subsequent changes made in the 1920s. Chosen by the Gonzaga as their preferred residence, the Casino di Sotto – already recalled in certain documents from 1502 and the subject of various renovations – was surrounded by a garden with fisheries, with avenues lined with espaliers and pergolas, statues and vases of flowers or citrus trees and, beyond the moat, by land obtained by draining the Crostolo valleys, part agricultural and part woodland. The typically Gonzaga layout of the garden and surrounding land, already reconsidered in 1700 by the will of Maria Teresa Cibo d’Este, was lost in 1800 when the Raynouard family decided to reduce the gardens and woodlands of the property to farmland.

(From S. Torresan, Il giardino del Casino di Sotto, in I giardini dei Gonzaga 2018, pp. 459-461)