Valsamoggia ( 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 ...

'' 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 ...

Emilia-Romagna egl, Emigliàn (man) egl, Emiglièna (woman) rgn, Rumagnòl (man) rgn, Rumagnòla (woman) it, Emiliano (man) it, Emiliana (woman) or it, Romagnolo (man) it, Romagnola (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title ...

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...

. It was created on 1 January 2014 after the merger of the former communes of Bazzano (the current town hall seat),

Castello di Serravalle Castello di Serravalle is a town in the ''comune'' of Valsamoggia in the Metropolitan City of Bologna in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about southwest of Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) i ...

Crespellano Crespellano is a ''frazione'' of ''comune'' (municipality) of Valsamoggia in the Metropolitan City of Bologna in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about west of Bologna. The main attraction is the ''Palazzo Garagnani'', a former patri ...

Monteveglio Monteveglio (''Muntvì'' or ''Måntvî'' in the western Bolognese dialect) is a ''frazione'' (village) in the ''comune'' (municipality) of Valsamoggia. It is located about west of Bologna, near the Samoggia River, in the Italian region of Emi ...

and

Savigno Savigno is a ''frazione'' of the ''comune'' (municipality) of Valsamoggia in the Province of Bologna in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about southwest of Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; ...

. The Italian painters,

Alessandro Scorzoni Alessandro Scorzoni (April 22, 1858 in Calcara di Crespellano, Province of Bologna – July 31, 1933 in Bologna) was an Italian painter, who depicted eclectic subjects, including sacred images, allegorical paintings, portraits, and landscape ...

and

Antonino Sartini Antonino Sartini (Crespellano, 1889 – Bazzano, 7 May 1954) was an Italian painter. He has been called the "painter of serenity" and belongs to that group of landscape painters of the early 1900s of the " Bolognese School of Painting", such a ...

, were born in this municipality. The

frazione A ''frazione'' (plural: ) is a type of subdivision of a ''comune'' (municipality) in Italy, often a small village or hamlet outside the main town. Most ''frazioni'' were created during the Fascist era (1922–1943) as a way to consolidate territ ...

of Zappolino in the Middle Ages was the location of a battle between the communes of

Modena Modena (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language#Dialects, Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern I ...

and Bologna.

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