Tresigallo - The Metaphysical Town

Tresigallo is a small town in the province of Ferrara, where the passing of the time hasn’t changed the urbanization. A visit to this town represents a travel back in time to admire one of the most precious examples of the Italian Rationalist architecture.

Edmondo Rossoni was the one who imagined a new life for his birth town.

Born as anarchic and revolutionary, he joined the socialist trade unions fighting for the proletariat. His political career was full of successes and he moved to become the minister of Agriculture under the Fascist regime of Mussolini. During those years, several projects of land drainage and reclamation were taking place around the Italian peninsula and Rossoni got inspired about creating a “model town”, that could represent the vision of the society at that time.

Between the 1933 and the 1939 Rossoni gave a new urban asset to Tresigallo, helped by some of his friends who were working as architects and developers.

His idea was to build an utopian town, as there was none before,  where employers and employees would not be antagonist, but would instead collaborate towards the same objectives and ambitions: to create new resources, new opportunities, new developments and more wealth and well-being for everyone.