Luzzara

Luzzara is an Italian metropolis of 8,840 populations within the province of Reggio Nell Emilia in Emilia Romagna. Bordering the Mantuan Oltrepo, the municipality is the northernmost within the province. The toponym Luzzara seems for the primary time in documents of the VII and VIII centuries, at the time the settlement stood on an island. Among the first files, a degree from 781 with which Charlemagne, King of the Franks and the Lombard, took the Reggian Church beneath his protection.

Luzzara is an example of the changes of Lordships in this era of political energy of the Padan territory. The Bishop of Reggio acquires it from the Emperor Louis the Pious, to whom he succeeds the throne Lothair I, who, claiming ownership, will violently resume his dominion. Subsequently it's miles lower back to the Bishop of Reggio in 840 he back to the emperor who gave it as a present to Angilberga, wife of his son Ludovico II. After in addition vicissitudes between the Church and the Empire, Luzzara returned to the Bishop of Reggio who entrusted her with Guastalla to Bonifazio di Canossa.