Reggio

Reggio, a city of Central Italy, stands on the ancient Via Emilia, 17 miles by rail SE. of Parma, and is still surrounded with walls. It has a good cathedral of the 15th century, one of the finest theatres in Italy, a model lunatic asylum, a natural history and an antiquarian museum, a library, &c. Pop. 18,634, who manufacture silk, hemp, turnery, leather, &c., and carry on considerable trade, especially in timber. Reggio is the birthplace of Ariosto. During the later middle ages it was an independent city, but was subject to the D'Estes from 1409 onwards. The bishopric was founded in 450.