Piazzetta Betlemme

Not to be missed in San Giovanni in Persiceto is the fantastic Piazzetta Betlemme, renamed “La piazzetta degli inganni” (The Little Square of Tricks) due to its multicoloured trompe l’oeil by the famous set designer Gino Pellegrini, collaborator of movie directors such as Stanley Kubrick.

Having just returned from Hollywood, where he worked on such great films as “2001, A Space Odyssey”, “West Side Story”, “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner” and “Mutiny On The Bounty”, Pellegrini imagined turning this small square into a homage to cinema, and over the course of the years, painted various scenes combining reality and imagination.