Tresigallo ( Ferrarese: ) is an Italian municipality in the

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, which is in the region of

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. 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, 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 Balilla 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, 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, Cemetery

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