Every design for Reggio Emilia
The big city that shaped you
13 unique designs from the city of Reggio Emilia in Emilia-Romagna – map designs, local expressions and symbols only people who know the place will read. Also available as t-shirt, hoodie or tote bag.
T-shirt
from 249 SEK
Hoodie
from 499 SEK
Tote bag
from 129 SEK
About Reggio Emilia
The Tricolour
Parmigiano Reggiano
Reggio Emilia Approach
Inside the Museo del Tricolore you are a few steps from the council chamber where, on 7 January 1797, the Italian flag was shown to the public for the first time — the reason Reggio Emilia calls itself the City of the Tricolour. The town is much older than the flag. It grew up on the via Emilia, the Roman road that the consul Marcus Aemilius Lepidus laid from Piacenza to Rimini, and its people simply call it Reggio.
What sets it apart is its shape. The old town keeps the hexagonal outline of its vanished walls, entered through gates such as Porta Santa Croce, and most of its main buildings, Palazzo Magnani and the Palazzo Vescovile among them, belong to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Reggio is one of the birthplaces of Parmigiano Reggiano, lends its name to a celebrated way of teaching young children, and wears the gold medal of the Resistance for its part in the liberation.
Anyone who has moved away knows the moment of coming back along the via Emilia, crossing the Crostolo and seeing the hexagon close around them again.
Shown on the map
Location: Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Coordinates: 44.6978°N, 10.6305°E
