Moglia, whose name comes from the Latin molleus, soft ground, lies in the lower Mantua plain on the border with Emilia: to the south it borders Modena's Concordia sulla Secchia and Novi di Modena and Reggio Emilia's Rolo and Reggiolo, while to the west it borders Gonzaga, of which it was part until 1877. The town, called La Mòja in dialect and made up of the hamlets of Bondanello, Coazze and Trivellano, is first recorded in 1337, when Mantua's captain Luigi da Gonzaga granted it as an honorary fief to Paolo Scopa Nigra and Pietrobono delle Navi. In 2012 it was the Mantua comune hit hardest by the Emilia earthquake, which severely damaged the town hall and the parish church.
In 1870 Moglia was the birthplace of the sculptor Pompeo Coppini, who trained in Italy, emigrated to the United States and made some of Texas's best-known public monuments: his is the Cenotaph to the Heroes of the Alamo, unveiled in San Antonio in 1939. Coppini also made a work for his hometown, the marble monument to the War Martyrs, unveiled in 1951 in front of the elementary school, where it stands today.
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📅 Every year, on 29 August; the fourth Sunday of July brings the Moglia Fair
Moglia celebrates Saint John the Baptist on 29 August, in the church dedicated to him. On the fourth Sunday of July, the Moglia Fair is held, while in September the Polenta Festival is celebrated.
White and yellow flour, almonds, butter and sugar, broken by hand: sbrisolona is Mantova's cake, already served at the Gonzaga court.
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Outside Moglia, but an easy day trip away.
