Tresignana

Colorful buildings, towers, marble, cylinders, cones, parallelepipeds, arches that fade into the horizon: walking in these places is a one of a kind, fascinating experience. The silence that envelops the landscape, interrupted only by the sound of the water flowing from the fountain, projects us into a dimension that hangs between geometry and dream.

Visitors are fascinated by the polychromy of the town's rationalist architecture: warm and cool colours that project to a different dimension, very different from the other cities in Ferrara's area and Pianura Padana. Tresigallo becomes a play of symmetries, overlapping spaces, elaborated harminies: it is the result of the work of anonymous construction workers, carpenters, glass makers, marble sculptors, engineers, surveyors and artists people know very little about, like Pietro Porcinai (garden architect), Ugo Tarchi (engineer), Giorgio Baroni (who experimented the innovative use of reinforced concrete on the roof of the M.A.L.I.C.A warehouse).

There is an estranged and metaphysical dimension in Tresigallo, a sort of stillness caused by the fact that the urban and architectural language has not been changed throughout time: Tresigallo was born and died with its builders, frozen in its evolution, stuck in 1940.

For these reasons, Tresigallo represents an interesting and unique architectural experience, one of the few examples that show a planned city built for political reasons, a heritage of social influence that only a place like this can offer. In 2004 it was given the recognition of "Città d'arte" (City of Art) for its recognizable qualities, connected to a precise historic period of time.