The Rocca Estense is a castle in San Felice sul Panaro, a comune (municipality) in the Province of Modena in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna. It is located about 40 kilometres (25 mi) northwest of Bologna and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) northeast of Modena.
San Felice sul Panaro is a comune (municipality) in the province of Modena in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 40 kilometres (25 mi) northwest of Bologna and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) northeast of Modena.
The comune is a basic administrative division in Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality.
The Province of Modena is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Modena.
Construction of the castle began in 1340 on the orders of the Marquis Obizzo III d'Este and took about twenty years to complete. In the following century, it was restored and further fortified by order of the Marquis Niccolò III d'Este, who commissioned the work from the military architect Bartolino da Novara.
Bartolino (Bertolino) Ploti da Novara was an Italian military architect and engineer.
The region was struck by two earthquakes in May 2012. The first earthquake, with a magnitude of 6.0, occurred on 20 May 2012 and severely damaged the castle. [1]
In May 2012, two major earthquakes struck Northern Italy, causing 27 deaths and widespread damage. In Italy they became known as the 2012 Emilia earthquakes.
The moment magnitude scale is one of many seismic magnitude scales used to measure the size of earthquakes.
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