Historical map of the castle and podesteria of Monfestino
2010, Vignola Foundation
€ 8,00
Colors, 88 x 64 cm, folded into 21 x 30 cm
ISBN 978-88-7866-017-5
Historical map of the castle and podesteria of Monfestino in the marquisate of Vignola, made on the basis of documentary and cartographic sources dating from the 15th-16th centuries. The drawing depicts the castle as it must have appeared at the end of the 16th century, with a detail of the Campanaria tower, the pivot of the sighting and surveillance system. Also depicted are the historical map of the podesteria of Monfestino with the toponymy of the time, a view of the ancient Romanesque Pieve dell’Assunta of Rocca Santa Maria, and a series of symbols carved on some ancient portals of churches and houses in the area.
Drawing by Loreno Confortini, made on the basis of historical research by the Documentation Center of the Vignola Foundation.
New view of the ancient castle of Savignano
2009, Vignola Foundation
€ 10,00
Colors, 88 x 63 cm folded into 21×30 cm
ISBN 978-88-7866-015-1
88-7866-015-9
Historical map reconstructed on the basis of information gleaned from archival documentation and published sources of the time, which proposes the new view of the ancient Castle of Savignano with the territories of the podesteria in the Marquisate of Vignola as it must have appeared in the mid-18th century.
Drawing by Loreno Confortini, made on the basis of historical research by the Documentation Center of the Vignola Foundation.
Map of the Marquisate of Spilamberto
2008, Vignola Foundation
€ 10,00
color, 87 x 63 cm folded into 21×30 cm
ISBN 978-88-7866-013-7
88-7866-013-2
Historical map reconstructed on the basis of information gleaned from archival documentation and published sources of the time, which proposes a map of the marquisate of Spilamberto, feud of the Rangone family, around the middle of the eighteenth century with a perspective representation of Spilamberto, the ducal powder mill, Castelnuovo Rangone, Campiglio and Denzano as they might have appeared in those times.
Drawing by Loreno Confortini, made on the basis of historical research by the Documentation Center of the Vignola Foundation.
View of the Fortress of Vignola
From the east as it must have appeared in the mid-19th century (2007)
$8.00, color. 88 x 42 cm
Map of the City of Vignola
(2006) € 8.00, color. 88 x 64 cm folded into 21×30 cm
ISBN 978-88-7866-008-3
88-7866-008-6
A historical map rigorously reconstructed on the basis of news and information gleaned from archival documentation, offering a view from the north of Vignola as it appeared in the mid-sixteenth century during the Contrari era, while illustrating the urban evolution of the city up to the nineteenth century.
Drawing by Loreno Confortini, made on the basis of historical research by the Documentation Center of the Vignola Foundation.
Map of the Marquisate of Vignola
(2003) € 8,00
color. 60×89 cm folded into 21×30 cm
ISBN 978-88-7866-005-2
88-7866-005-1
The topographical map of the Marquisate of Vignola in the second half of the 16th century (the first cartographic reconstruction of the territory of the Vignola fiefdom) is the result of painstaking research work carried out as part of a larger project aimed at censusing and enhancing the documentary sources concerning the history of Vignola and the Rocca.
Drawing by Loreno Confortini, made on the basis of historical research by the Documentation Center of the Vignola Foundation.
Some details of the Marquisate of Vignola
Notes in the margin of the map drawing of the Vignola fiefdom.
Taken from the 5th issue of the magazine “Gente di Panaro,” edited by the Gruppo di Documentazione Vignolese “Mezaluna – M. Menabue” (ed. il Fiorino)






