Brescello: the city of Peppone and Don Camillo

Brescello - Brescello is a small town in the province of Reggio Emilia. The country became famous all over the world thanks to the French director Julien Duvivier who chose it as the location to shoot the successful series of films by Peppone and Don Camillo. In fact, Duvivier was looking for a town that had the town hall and the church in the same square and Brescello had these characteristics.

Here everything talks about the characters of the film series and two museums have also been established in this regard. In them various props are kept such as a tank, Peppone's legendary sidecar and the amplifier used by Don Camillo to disturb the rallies of his enemy in the third film. In addition to this, iconic rooms of the series have been reproduced in the Peppone and Don Camillo Museum, such as the section of the Communist Party with photos of Stalin and Lenin. In addition there is also a part that concerns the behind the scenes of the films with numerous interesting photos. It is said that since there are not many accommodation facilities in the town, the members of the film crews were hosted by the families of Brescello. Finally, among the fans of the series there is even Pope Ratzinger.