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EMILIA ROMAGNA

- Emilia Romagna is a region in North Central Italy with over 4.2 million inhabitants. Its capital is Bologna.

- Emilia Romagna is one of the richest regions in Europe with an unemployment rate of 2.9% in 2007, effectively full employment. In 2007 statistics from Unioncamera placed Bologna and Modena as the third and fourth richest cities in Italy (after Milan and Biella) while Bologna was named the Italian city with the highest standard of living.

- The Italian tricolour flag was invented in in Reggio during the Napoloeonic Wars in northen Italy.

- Food in Emilia Romagna is among the most varied in Italy and the region is the home of spaghetti Bolognese, lasagne, piadina and tagliatelle.

- The film director Federico Fellini, the opera singer Luciano Pavarotti, the rock singer Vasco Rossi and the "father of the radio" Guglielmo Marconi were all born in Emilia Romagna.

- The Vespa scooter company, made famous in the film Roman Holiday with Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn, was founded in Piacenza.