Grizzana Morandi (
Medial Mountain Bolognese: ) is a ''
comune
The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces (''province''). The can also ...
'' (municipality) in the
Metropolitan City of Bologna
The Metropolitan City of Bologna ( it, Città Metropolitana di Bologna) is a metropolitan city in the Emilia-Romagna region, Italy. Its capital is ''de facto'' the city of Bologna, though the body does not explicitly outline it. It was created by ...
in the
Italian region
Emilia-Romagna
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, located about southwest of
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...
. The town is summer holiday resort, located in the mountains between the valleys of the rivers Reno and Setta.
Originally simply Grizzana, it received the "Morandi" in 1985, as an honorarium to the Italian painter
Giorgio Morandi, who died in 1964. Morandi rarely travelled from his home and studio in Bologna, but visited Grizzana every year from 1913 for a summer holiday period, and many of his landscape paintings are of the town and its immediate surrounds. The town also hosts a centre for documentation about him (Centro di documentazione Giorgio Morandi) which has a collection of documents on the painter and local history.
Grizzana Morandi borders the following municipalities:
Camugnano
Camugnano ( Medial Mountain Bolognese: ; City Bolognese: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Bologna in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about southwest of Bologna.
Camugnano borders the following municipali ...
,
Castel di Casio
Castel di Casio ( Medial Mountain Bolognese: or ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) of the Metropolitan City of Bologna in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, about southwest of Bologna.
Castel di Casio borders the following municipalities: Camugna ...
,
Castiglione dei Pepoli
Castiglione dei Pepoli ( egl, label= High Mountain Bolognese, Castión) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, located about southwest of Bologna.
It takes its name from the Pepoli noble family ...
,
Gaggio Montano
Gaggio Montano ( Medial Mountain Bolognese: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Bologna in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about southwest of Bologna.
Gaggio Montano borders the following municipalities: Caste ...
,
Marzabotto,
Monzuno
Monzuno ( Bolognese: ) is an Italian ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Bologna (Emilia-Romagna).
The territory of the commune is located on the western slope of the Savena valley, on the northern ridge of Monte Venere and on the left side o ...
,
San Benedetto Val di Sambro,
Vergato.
References
External links
Official websiteMuseo Morandi
Cities and towns in Emilia-Romagna
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