Tresigallo ( Ferrarese: ) is an Italian municipality in the

province of Ferrara The province of Ferrara ( it, provincia di Ferrara; egl, pruvîncia ad Fràra) is a province in the region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Its provincial capital is the city Ferrara. As of 2016, it has a population of 354,238 inhabitants over an area ...

, which is in the region of

Emilia-Romagna egl, Emigliàn (man) egl, Emiglièna (woman) rgn, Rumagnòl (man) rgn, Rumagnòla (woman) it, Emiliano (man) it, Emiliana (woman) or it, Romagnolo (man) it, Romagnola (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title ...

. It has about 4,700 inhabitants. Despite its medieval origins, to which only a 16th-century palace (Palazzo Pio) of the

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bears witness today, it was transformed by the

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Minister of Agriculture

Edmondo Rossoni Edmondo Rossoni (May 6, 1884 – June 8, 1965) was a revolutionary syndicalist leader and an Italian fascist politician who became involved in the Fascist syndicate movement during Benito Mussolini's regime. Early life Born to a working-class f ...

, who was born in Tresigallo in 1884. From his ministry in Rome, he developed and supervised the new village map, completely rebuilding it as a ''utopian city'' from 1927 to 1934. Two axes were drawn across the town in order to link the main aspects of everyday life: on the horizontal axis there was the Church (spirituality) and the

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House, a youth center, renamed ''Casa della G.I.L'' (''Gioventù Italiana del Littorio''); on the vertical axis there was the civic centre (everyday life) and the cemetery (memory). File:Palazzo Pio in ristrutturazione, dicembre 2014 (Tresigallo).JPG, Palazzo Pio File:07180011tresigallohouseofculture.JPG, House of Culture File:07190002tresigallotownhall.JPG, Town hall File:07190003tresigalloformercarabinieri.JPG, Former police File:07180012tresigalloentrancetothesportscomplex.JPG, Entrance to the sports complex File:Cimitero Tresigallo.jpg, Cimetry

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Cities and towns in Emilia-Romagna Architecture related to utopias {{EmiliaRomagna-geo-stub