Molinella (
Bolognese: or ) is a ''
comune
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'' (municipality) part of
Metropolitan City of Bologna
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in the
Italian
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region
Emilia-Romagna
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, located about northeast of
Bologna
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.
Molinella borders the following municipalities:
Argenta,
Baricella,
Budrio,
Medicina
Medicina ( Bolognese: ; Eastern Bolognese: ) is an Italian ''comune'' with c. 16,000 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Bologna, part of the region of Emilia-Romagna.
Name
The origins of its name (which in Italian means "medicine") are qui ...
.
Molinella is situated in a rural area on the old ''San Donato Road'' (which in the past connected Bologna with Argenta and its port on the
Po di Primaro). The municipality is crossed on the northern side by the
Reno River
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It has a drainage basin of about ...
and it is surrounded by several marshes and canals.
The town has a railway station on the
Bologna-Portomaggiore Railway.
History
The name ''Molinella'' comes from the Italian word for mill, ''molino''; That is because during the Middle Ages there was a large number of
watermills
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in this area.
The village was created before the 14th century on a hillock between the ''marshes of Marmorta and Marrara'' and just south of the
Po di Primaro river. The village was a "Customs place" on the border between ''Bologna Territory'' and ''
Ferrara Territory'' until the 18th century. It was also one of the few accesses to the ferries which crossed the Po di Primaro.
It remained for long time one of the most isolated village in the
province of Bologna
The province of Bologna ( it, provincia di Bologna) was a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its provincial capital was the city of Bologna. The province of Bologna covered an area of and had a total population of 1,004,323 inhabitan ...
. The construction of the railway in the 19th century was the first step for the development of the village, which is nowadays a little town with high standards of living.
Climate
On 12 January 1985, the official weather station of San Pietro Capofiume recorded the absolute low temperature of Italy for a lowland place: .
References
External links
Official website
Cities and towns in Emilia-Romagna
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