The territory of Poviglio is located on the lowland plains of the Province of Reggio Emilia, and covers an area of 43 sq. km.
Postal code: 42028
Area code: 0522
Market day: Saturday
Distance from Reggio Emilia: 22 km.
Outlying villages: Fodico, Godezza, San Sisto, Enzola, Casalpò
Inhabitants:
7,087 update December 31, 2007 |
How to get there:
Poviglio is located 22 km from Reggio Emilia on main road SS 63. Turn left shortly past Villa Sesso. From Parma, take main SS 62 to the river Enza, which acts as a natural boundary between the Province of Parma and the Province of Reggio Emilia. Turn right immediately past the river Enza. Poviglio is located 20 km from Parma. |
Tourist information:
Municipality 0039 0522 966811; Fax 0039 522 960152 |
The territory of Poviglio was densely populated during the Bronze Age, when the terramara settlements were built. After the Iron Age, from which we have no information, the area was colonized anew by the Etruscans in the 6th century B.C. An invasion by the Celts caused a decline in the 4th century B.C. Following this period, the Romans colonized the area; traces are still visible in the countryside today of their characteristic system of checkerboard roads and plots of farmland called "centuriation".
THE SANTA ROSA TERRAMARA SETTLEMENT
This area was explored immediately following a discovery made during levelling of local farmland in 1983. Systematic archeological excavation has been carried out in the area from 1984 until the present.
Terramara settlements were surrounded by a square embankment and a moat filled with water channeled from a nearby water course. The Santa Rosa Terramara Settlement measured about seven hectares, and was made up of two villages. It had a smaller, older village, and a larger village to the south of the first one. The terramara civilization died out suddenly in all of the central Po River Valley around the middle of the 12th century B.C.