Polesine Parmense
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Polesine Parmense is a comune
Comune
In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

(municipality) in the Province of Parma
Province of Parma
The Province of Parma is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Parma.It has an area of 3,449 km², and a total population of 413,198...

 in the Italian
Italy
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 region Emilia-Romagna
Emilia-Romagna
Emilia–Romagna is an administrative region of Northern Italy comprising the two historic regions of Emilia and Romagna. The capital is Bologna; it has an area of and about 4.4 million inhabitants....

, located about 120 km northwest of Bologna
Bologna
Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...

 and about 30 km northwest of Parma
Parma
Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its ham, its cheese, its architecture and the fine countryside around it. This is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....

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The municipality is located in the so-called "Bassa Parmense" area, northwest of Parma, it borders on Busseto, the home town of Giuseppe Verdi, and is one of the very few places where the King of Salami, Culatello, is produced.

It is one of the most intense and complete pleasures to be outside, al fresco, by the river Po, munching on paper-thin slices of Culatello, while the grammophone is playing Verdi, and the sun is setting.
Polesine Parmense borders the following municipalities: Busseto
Busseto
Busseto is a comune in the province of Parma, in Emilia-Romagna in Northern Italy. It was the capital of Stato Pallavicino. Opera composer Giuseppe Verdi was born in the nearby village of Le Roncole and he moved there in 1824...

, Stagno Lombardo
Stagno Lombardo
Stagno Lombardo is a comune in the Province of Cremona in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 80 km southeast of Milan and about 8 km southeast of Cremona...

, Villanova sull'Arda
Villanova sull'Arda
Villanova sull'Arda is a comune in the Province of Piacenza in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 120 km northwest of Bologna and about 25 km east of Piacenza....

, Zibello
Zibello
Zibello is a comune in the Province of Parma in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 110 km northwest of Bologna and about 30 km northwest of Parma....

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