Marzabotto
Template:Infobox Italian comune Marzabotto (Medial Mountain Bolognese: Template:Lang) is a small town and comune in Italian region Emilia-Romagna, part of the Metropolitan City of Bologna. It is located Template:Convert south-southwest of Bologna by rail, and lies in the valley of the Reno. The area includes the site of an ancient Etruscan city and also the place of a modern massacre that took place there during World War II.
Etruscan city
In and below the grounds of the Villa Aria, close to the city, are the remains of an Etruscan town of the 5th century BC, Kainua, protected on the west by the mountains, on the south-east by the river, which by a change of course has destroyed about half of it.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Haynes2005">Template:Cite book</ref> The acropolis was just below the villa: here remains of temples were found.
The town lay below the modern high-road and was laid out on a rectangular plan divided by main streets into eight quarters, and these in turn into blocks or insulae.<ref name="Banti1973">Template:Cite book</ref> Necropoleis were found on the east and north of the site.<ref name="BernardiniCamporeale2004">Template:Cite book</ref> The place was partially inhabited later by the Gauls, but was not occupied by the Romans.<ref>The Etruscan town of Marzabotto Archaeological site and National Etruscan Museum "Pompeo Aria" http://www.archeobologna.beniculturali.it/marzabotto/note_en.htm</ref> {{#invoke:Gallery|gallery}} Template:Clear
World War II massacre
{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} On September 29, 1944, during the World War II German occupation of Italy, the town was the site of the worst massacre of civilians committed by the Waffen SS in Italy.<ref name="Mikaberidze2013">Template:Cite book</ref> In reprisal of the local support given to the partisans and the resistance movement, soldiers of the SS-Panzer-Aufklärungsabteilung 16, killed systematically hundreds of civilians in Marzabotto, and in the adjacent Grizzana Morandi and Monzuno.<ref name="Cawthorne2012">Template:Cite book</ref> The town was awarded the Gold Medal of Military Valour for this episode. Sculptor Nicola Zamboni created a large monument in the city in 1975 in front of the town hall.<ref name="Galmozzi1986">Template:Cite book</ref>
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