Castel Maggiore

Castel Maggiore is an Italian comune within the Metropolitan City of Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, valuable Italy, located 9 kilometres north of the centre of Bologna. Literally, its name manner Great Castle, however the call is derived from the sooner name Castaniolo Maggiore. The first files conveying the existence of the Comune, in historic instances referred to as Castaniolo date back to the 10^th century. The legend narrates that the call comes from a big chestnut trunk that should have floated into the territory of the comune through the Canale Navile.

Afterwards Castaniolo changed into marked through the nickname of Maggiore that allows you to distinguish it from a homonymous hamlet of the comune of Bentivoglio. The name became changed into the one it nonetheless includes nowadays all through Napoleon's generation, in 1818, wherein jurisdiction on state-of-the-art hamlets has been recognised. The metropolis underwent heavy bomb attacks at some point of World War II due to the passage of the railroad linking Bologna and Padua.