Gualtieri (Emilia-Romagna)

Gualtieri
Country	Italy
region	Emilia-Romagna
province	Reggio Emilia  (RE)
Local name	Gualtêr
Coordinates	44 ° 54 '  N , 10 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 54 '0 "  N , 10 ° 37' 0"  E
height	22  m slm
surface	36 km²
Residents	6,366 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	177 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	42044
prefix	0522
ISTAT number	035023
Popular name	Gualtierini
Patron saint	Maria delle Neve
Website	Gualtieri

Gualtieri Municipal Council

Gualtieri is an Italian municipality with 6366 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Reggio Emilia in Emilia-Romagna . The municipality is located about 22 kilometers north of Reggio nell'Emilia on the Po and borders directly on the province of Mantua .

Gualtieri is a member of the I borghi più belli d'Italia association (The Most Beautiful Places in Italy).

traffic

The municipality is located with a train station on the Parma - Suzzara railway line .

The former Strada Statale 63 del Valico del Cerreto from Reggio nell'Emilia to Gualtieri is now a provincial road. The State Road 62 della Cisa has become a provincial or regional road.

Personalities

• Antonio Ligabue (1899–1965), painter
• Giovanni Battista Aleotti (* 1546 in Argenta, † 1636 in Ferrara), architect and engineer, built the palazzo in which the municipal administration sits.

In the media

railway station

The Gualtieri train station was the location of the last scene in the Italian-French film Don Camillo and Peppone (1952), where Don Camillo is bid farewell to Peppone and the members of the Communist Party on his train journey into the "temporary exile" .

Web links

Commons : Gualtieri  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ^ I borghi più belli d'Italia. Borghipiubelliditalia.it, accessed August 6, 2017 (Italian). 
3. ^ Antonio Ligabue. In: Sikart , accessed January 25, 2016.