Monuments

“Dal museo al paesaggio” (from museum to landscape) is a project that since 2018 has been drawing the map of a route made of painted walls starting from Museo civico Luigi Varoli in Cotignola historical centre and then branching out and joining, not only ideally, with the landscape and the countryside, the parks and the naturalistic areas. It ends up in a place where, during the month of July, in one of Senio river floodplains, the “Arena delle balle di paglia” (arena of haystacks) takes place. Starting from the second half of May 2018, the work-in-progress constellation of painted walls grows and expands thanks to a sequence of new artworks made by street artists. In line with the characteristics and the mission of this “extended museum and geography”, this series of images are inspired and intertwined with stories, memories, identities, ghosts and suggestions which are typical of the territory.

The ‘Palazzo dei Contadini’ (farmers’ palace) was restored in 1998 and is now a multipurpose cultural centre, popularly know as “Ca di cuntaden”, in the local dialect.

The buildings of ‘Tarabina’ were originally rice warehouses and tobacco factories with dry houses. The first building dates back to the second half of the XIX century, when the rice production started.

Oval square built in the XVIII century as a market for butchers, fishmongers and oil vendors.

“E munumént dla pègna” is known by the eldest local people as “e funtanòn”: from the mouth of its three mysterious masks, fresh water used to run from a water-bearing layer which, 30 years after its inauguration in 1874, dried up.

The People’s Sundial (Meridiana dei Popoli) is in the City Centre and is by Mario Nanni, artist and light designer. The 2014 monumental structure rises at the intersection of the long ago Cardo and the Decumano, the principal axes of the ancient Roman Legionary camp layout.

The Callido organ that is kept in the Carmine Church of Lugo was built in 1797, and it is regarded as the second most beautiful organ made by Gaetano Callido, the most beautiful one being the one of the Parish Church of Candide in Cadore (Belluno).

It used to be an ENEL power transformer cabinet. Now it is a ‘non-automatic distributor of courage’. The street artists of ‘Collettivo FX’ from Reggio Emilia painted this mural. It depicts the faces of the four Cotignola-born Righteous heroes Luigi and Anna Varoli, Vittorio and Serafina Zanzi, as well as those of the seven Martyrs of the Senio River executed by a Nazi firing squad in October 1944, of partisan Leno Casadio and local priest Father Stefano Casadio who freed Cotignola from Nazi occupation with the ‘white flag’ scheme, and of young partisan Esiodo Rava.

The Refettorio Nuovo – Sala Oriani is a congress hall.