Busanella is a hamlet (
frazione
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) of the Italian Municipality of
Carpineti
Carpineti ( egl, label= Reggiano, Carpnèida , locally ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Reggio Emilia in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about west of Bologna and about southwest of Reggio Emilia.
Carpineti border ...
, in the
province of Reggio Emilia
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. The whole frazione, with other small hamlets, is also known as San Biagio, from the name of the parish church, which was a filial church of the
pleban church of Carpineti.
Busanella is located in the
Apennines
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mountains, near the river
Tresinaro. The hamlet is first named in a document of the year 1240. In the neighbourhood there are other small hamlets (
località
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), among them Frombolara, an ancient possession of the benedictine monks of the abbey of Marola, Pignedolo and Cantigalli. Under the
Este rule Busanella was a
county
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of the
Duchy of Reggio, feud of the
count
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Orazio Malaguzzi, of the family of the poet
Ludovico Ariosto
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. Busanella, together with other hamlets of the frazione, counts about 170 inhabitants.
Cities and towns in Emilia-Romagna
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