Roncole Verdi
| Roncole Verdi | |||
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| Giuseppe Verdi's birth house | |||
| Country | Italy | ||
| region | Emilia-Romagna | ||
| province | Parma (PR) | ||
| local community | Busseto | ||
| Coordinates | 44 ° 57 ' N , 10 ° 4' E | ||
| height | 40 m slm | ||
| Residents | 382 (2001) | ||
| patron | Arcangelo Michele | ||
| Church day | September 29th | ||
| Telephone code | 0524 | CAP | 43010 |
Roncole Verdi , formerly called Le Roncole , is a suburb of Busseto in the province of Parma , Italy , which is now incorporated .
It is the birthplace of Giuseppe Verdi , the house where he was born still stands and is now a museum. Not far away is Giuseppe Verdi's retirement home, Villa Verdi , in Sant'Agata, a district of Villanova sull'Arda . The premises also house a museum about the great composer. The Italian state has awarded the house, together with the birth houses of Giacomo Puccini and Gioachino Rossini , the European Heritage Seal .
The writer and journalist Giovannino Guareschi , famous as the author of the stories of Don Camillo and Peppone, also lived in Roncole from 1952 until his death in 1968 . This is also where he was buried. Guareschi's house can now also be viewed as a museum; there you can also see a lot of the drawings that Guareschi made for his books and newspaper articles.
Web links
- Casa natale di Giuseppe Verdi on the Busseto website
- Villa Verdi on the Busseto website