Castelfranco Emilia

Castelfranco Emilia is a town and comune within the Modena, Emilia-Romagna, northern-critical Italy. The town lies approximately 25 kilometres northwest of Bologna. Castelfranco either occupies or lies near the website online of the historical Forum Gallorum, a place at the Via Aemilia between Modena and Bologna, wherein in 43 BC Octavian and Hirtius defeated Mark Antony. In 1861, it turned into joined with the previous comune of Piumazzo.

This metropolis is home of the tortellini, an average Italian meals. In this place lambrusco wine is likewise produced. The church of Santa Maria Assunta homes a image of the Assumption of Mary with the aid of Guido Reni. Castelfranco has additionally a fort constructed in 1628–34 via Urban VIII as a northern protective bastion for the Papal States. The Papal States, officially the State of the Church, had been a series of territories in the Italian Peninsula underneath the direct sovereign rule of the Pope, from the 8^th century until 1870.