Guastalla

Guastalla is an Italian city of 15,006 inhabitants inside the province of Reggio Emilia in Emilia Romagna, in addition to the capital of the Union of municipalities within the Reggio Emilia area. The first archaeological proof referring to a metropolis on this vicinity appears up to now again to the Etruscan period. However, it's miles in the early Middle Ages that the name of the city is stated for the primary time in ancient assets Ludovico II the Younger gives his spouse Angilberga Guastalla, the fortified Lombard defend put up, superior towards the Byzantines mounted in Mantua.

In this locality there has been a chapel devoted to St. Peter, whose prestige increased over the a long time to be provided the plebeian dignity in 980, to then be consecrated in 997 through Pope Gregory V. The years round one thousand noticed Guastalla regularly skip possession, from the papal authority to the emperors, from the feudal lords to the maximum effective lords of the time. It is most effective under the kingdom of the Canossa family that the inhabited nucleus built around the church of Pieve, received the privilege of nullius dioecesis via Urban II, started out to anticipate importance due to the presence of huge areas cultivated on fertile ground in steps from the Po, strategic area of passage in a point of ford of the river.