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Cantarelli Stefano
July 27, 2025
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It is one of the most beautiful squares in the city.
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Stenio Melani
June 19, 2026
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Piazza Fontanesi is one of the most characteristic and lively squares in the historic center of Reggio Emilia. Lined with trees and surrounded by arcades, it is a corner with …
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Stenio Melani
June 19, 2026
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like those for silk processing, leather tanning, and the production of tallow candles.
Among the houses overlooking the square, noteworthy at No. 8 is the beautiful loggia of the house of the Reggio painter Gaetano Chierici, and at No. 7, the painting depicting the Madonna with Child and saints, placed in a lunette between two arches and attributable to the 19th century.
Finally, at the end of Via del Guazzatoio, set into the sixteenth-century bastion, one can see what remains of the thirteenth-century Porta Castello with its large ogival arch.
Among the houses overlooking the square, noteworthy at No. 8 is the beautiful loggia of the house of the Reggio painter Gaetano Chierici, and at No. 7, the painting depicting the Madonna with Child and saints, placed in a lunette between two arches and attributable to the 19th century.
Finally, at the end of Via del Guazzatoio, set into the sixteenth-century bastion, one can see what remains of the thirteenth-century Porta Castello with its large ogival arch.
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