Correggio (Emilia-Romagna)

Correggio
Country	Italy
region	Emilia-Romagna
province	Reggio Emilia  (RE)
Local name	Curèz
Coordinates	44 ° 46 '  N , 10 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 46 '0 "  N , 10 ° 47' 0"  E
height	33  m slm
surface	77 km²
Residents	25,291 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	328 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	42015
prefix	0522
ISTAT number	035020
Popular name	Correggesi
Patron saint	San Quirino vescovo e martire and San Michele Arcangelo
Website	Correggio

Correggio is a town with 25,291 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the Italian province of Reggio Emilia , Emilia-Romagna region .

The city is the second most important center of the province, after the capital Reggio nell'Emilia , which is 18 kilometers south. The urban area covers 77 km².

history

Correggio was already a settlement in Roman times , later the area was inhabited by Lombards . However, the town experienced its heyday in the 15th and 16th centuries, when it was the capital of a small Signoria , under whose rule several famous Renaissance writers worked in the city, including Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso .

sons and daughters of the town

• Daniele Adani (* 1974), football player
• Charles II d'Amboise (1472 / 73–1511), military
• Bonifazio Asioli (1769–1832), music theorist, music educator, harpsichordist, conductor and composer
• Luigi Asioli (around 1767–1815), singer and composer
• Salvatore Bagni (* 1956), football player
• Francesco Balbi (1505–1589), chronicler of the siege of Malta in 1565
• Antonio da Correggio (actually Antonio Allegri ; 1489–1534), Renaissance painter
• Sigismondo Donati (1552–1641), Bishop of Ascoli Piceno
• Luciano Ligabue (* 1960), rock musician, writer, director
• Loris Malaguzzi (1920–1994), educator
• Claudio Merulo (1533–1604), composer and organist
• Dorando Pietri (1885–1942), marathon runner at the 1908 Olympic Games
• Pier Vittorio Tondelli (1955–1991), writer

See also

• List of stumbling blocks in Emilia-Romagna

Web links

• Official Homepage (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.