Cotignola: Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Few places in Romagna have a history as closely tied to the Senio River as Cotignola. Set on the plain between Ravenna and Faenza, the town belongs to the dense settlement pattern and fruit-growing countryside of lower Romagna. Cotignola is closely associated with Alberico da Barbiano, the fourteenth-century condottiero known as the Green Count, who was born here and founded the Company of St George. It is also remembered for families who sheltered Jewish refugees during the Second World War; several local residents have been recognised by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. The centre retains the measured scale of a working provincial town, shaped by civic streets, modest homes and everyday commerce.
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Cotignola sits on the lower Romagna plain near the Senio River in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, where cultivated fields and drainage channels extend across a flat alluvial landscape. The town is the birthplace of Muzio Attendolo, the late-medieval condottiero called Sforza; his career founded the Sforza dynasty, later rulers of Milan. Cotignola suffered extensive destruction during the Second World War, when the front reached the Senio line, and its rebuilt centre carries that twentieth-century history alongside older Romagnolo civic traditions. View additional webcams nearby to better understand how Cotignola relates to the Senio valley and the wider Romagna plain.
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