If you are looking for famous figures, the Bassa Reggiana boasts a long list of local stars, along with many related places and museums to visit: 

BRESCELLO - Here live some of the most iconic characters in cinematic history: Don Camillo and Peppone, alongside their creator, writer Giovannino Guareschi. 

BORETTO - Pietro Ghizzardi is regarded as one of the earliest exponents of 20th-century outsider art.

GUALTIERI - Once considered eccentric and alien, Antonio Ligabue is today counted among the most influential Italian painters; Umberto Torelli, instead, was one of the most important costume designers in the history of both cinema and theatre.

GUASTALLA - An internationally renowned artist, associated to the Naïve art movement, Elena Guastalla enchanted viewers with her canvases and murales 

LUZZARA - A multifaceted artist who left a lasting mark on cinema and art: here is Cesare Zavattini, to whom his hometown has dedicated a soon-to-be-opened museum. 

NOVELLARA: some voices are unmistakable and unforgettable, and his was truly one of them - singer Augusto Daolio was born here.