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OUR LAND: SASSO MARCONI History Sasso Marconi takes the name from the medieval toponim of “Rupe” (cliff) (Sasso di Glosina) that rises from the confluence between Reno and Setta and from Guglielmo Marconi, the scientist who invented the radiotelegraph. There are numerous human settlements of pre-historic in this zone, point of passage and connection between the Apennine area and that pedemontana. Indications of Etruscan (some tombs have been preserved in the Museum of Marzabotto) and Roman age (the aqueduct dug in the last years of the first century B.C. to the confluence between Reno and Setta in order to carry drinkable water to Bologna is, in some features, still working) can be found. For all the communal age the territory remains divided in several parts (from Bologna Vescovado, feud of Panico, contado), with the Lordship of Bentivoglio only begins a more flourishing period: the city is opens up to the countryside, the first homes of the aristocracy, and later the bourgeoisie city. Even artistic life, in the following centuries, will be particularly lively thanks to the presence of famous people such as Francesco Albani, Claudio Achillini, Andrea Donducci, also know as “il Mastelletta”. During the Napoleonic era we have the creation of the “Produro di Sasso” Commune and in 1828 the territory presents itself as practically as it is today. The last world war caused heavy damages to the architectonical patrimony and and many civil victims. A fast reconstruction and a strong industrial and urban development along the Porrettana road characterises the following decades. Even if the progressive desertion of the countryside and agricultural work has deeply changed the social-economic tissue of the population, the local community has always dedicated attention to an increase model of growth that did not cancel the identity of the places and the peculiar characteristics of people "of Sasso”. < characteristics

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