Famous people
Alfonso Rubbiani
Eclectic character of culture, promotor of the artistic movement Aemilia Ars, politician and author of important restoration...
Alice Zeppilli
Great soprano from Pieve di Cento, who performed with giants of operas like Enrico Caruso...
Amico Aspertini
Original and highly cultured, the painter who would never submit to anyone decorated the Rocca Isolani in Minerbio...
Augusto Majani
Painter and caricaturist from Budrio, he was appreciated by the poet Gabriele D'Annunzio...
Clelia Barbieri
Young saint from Le Budrie, she considered commitment in education as a women’s renaissance phenomenon...
Francesco Molinari Pradelli
Conductor with an international career and art-collector of Baroque paintings housed in his villa in Castenaso...
Gaetano Gandolfi
The painter born in Decima, who revived the academic virtuosity of Bolognese Baroque with the Tiepolesque colouring...
Gioacchino Rossini
The composer lived in Castenaso after the celebration of his first marriage to the soprano Isabella Colbran...
Giovanni and Nina Gozzadini
A couple dedicated to archeology, who linked the name to the discovery of Villanova's necropolis...
Giulietta Masina
Federico Fellini's wife, the waif-like actress interpreted an archetype of melancholy, submissive femininity...
Giulio Cesare Croce
Writer and playwright born in Persiceto, he is the creator of Bertoldo, the coarse but quick-witted peasant...
Giuseppe Massarenti
Socialist and unionist from Molinella, he dedicates his life to defend the rights of the weakest rural classes...
Il Guercino
Painter from the Centopievese, he follows the precepts of Baroque aesthetics without abandoning the truthfulness...
Marcello Malpighi
Scientist native of Crevalcore, aimed at microscopic anatomy, he investigated the human body in a scientific manner...
Napoleone and the Duchy of Galliera
The estate bought by the emperor to be given to his niece Josephine Eugenie Beauharnais and his acquired grandaughter ...
Nilla Pizzi
Singer from Sant'Agata Bolognese, she wins the first edition of the Sanremo Festival in 1951 with the song Grazie dei fior...
Pirro Cuniberti
Artist and illustrator, in 1952 he starts utilizing the ballpoint pen to draw and he reaches the artistic abstraction...
Quirico Filopanti
Patriot and inventor from Budrio, mathematician and astronomer, he is the precursor of the invention of time zones...
Vito
Comedian, born in Persiceto, Stefano Bicocchi enacts in a personal way the Bolognese tradition in theatre, cinema, tv...