Medicina (
Bolognese
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: ;
Eastern Bolognese: ) is an Italian ''
comune'' with c. 16,000 inhabitants 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 ...
, part of the region of
Emilia-Romagna.
Name
The origins of its name (which in
Italian means "
medicine") are quite uncertain, and many hypotheses have been put forward. A legend tells that the Emperor
Frederick Barbarossa
Frederick Barbarossa (December 1122 – 10 June 1190), also known as Frederick I (german: link=no, Friedrich I, it, Federico I), was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 until his death 35 years later. He was elected King of Germany in Frankfurt on ...
, passing through Medicina from
Milan fell ill and miraculously recovered because of a snake that accidentally came into the pot of his soup. It has been proved, though, that Barbarossa did pass through Medicina but that the name of the town predates that time. In memory of this legend the ''
Festa del Barbarossa
Festa may refer to:
*Feast day for a Christian saint, in Italian, Portuguese, Galician, and Maltese
*Festa della Repubblica, the Italian National Day and Republic Day
Music
* ''Festa'' (album), by Ivete Sangalo, or the title song, 2001
* "Festa" ...
'' ("Barbarossa's party") takes place every year on the 3rd weekend of September.
Science
A
radio observatory
A radio telescope is a specialized antenna and radio receiver used to detect radio waves from astronomical radio sources in the sky. Radio telescopes are the main observing instrument used in radio astronomy, which studies the radio frequency po ...
named "Croce del Nord" (Cross of the North) is located near Medicina (in the village of Fiorentina). It is made up of an
aerial, long, and of a much wider "cross". It is operated by the
Istituto di Radioastronomia di Bologna (Institute for Radio Astronomy of Bologna), created by the
CNR (National association for Research) and now part of the
INAF
The National Institute for Astrophysics ( it, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, or INAF) is an Italian research institute in astronomy and astrophysics, founded in 1999. INAF funds and operates twenty separate research facilities, which in turn e ...
and there is an identical one in
Noto,
Sicily.
Sport
Medicina has a football and a basketball team, both playing in lower leagues, as well as a cycling team and a cycling development center for youth.
In August 2010 Medicina hosted six matches of the
2010 ICC World Cricket League Division Four
The 2010 ICC World Cricket League Division Four was a cricket tournament that took place in August 2010 in Italy. It formed part of the World Cricket League competition administered by the International Cricket Council, the international governin ...
, organised by Italy.
Giovanni Caprara, trainer of the Russian women volleyball team which won the World Championship in 2006, is a native of Medicina.
Twin towns
*
Å kofja Loka, Slovenia
*
Romilly-sur-Seine
Romilly-sur-Seine (, literally ''Romilly on Seine'') is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France.
Population
International relations
Romilly-sur-Seine is twinned with:
* Milford Haven, United Kingdom
* Gotha, Germany
* Lüd ...
, France
References
External links
*
Official website of the Municipal Band of Medicina
Cities and towns in Emilia-Romagna
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