MARZABOTTO  , a

village of Emilia, Italy, in the province of Bologna, 17 M . S.S.W. of Bologna by rail . Pop . (1901), 617 (village); 5272 (commune) . It lies in the valley of the Reno, 443 ft. above sea-level . In and below the grounds of the Villa Aria, close to it, are the remains of an Etruscan town of the 5th century B.C., protected on the west by the mountains, on the east and south by the river, which by a change of course has destroyed about half of it . The acropolis was just below the villa: here remains of temples were found . The town lay below the modern high-road and was laid out on a rectangular plan divided by main streets into eight quarters, and these in turn into blocks or insulae . Cemeteries were found on the east and north of the site . The name of the place is unknown: it was partially inhabited later by the Gauls, but was not occupied by the Romans . The discoveries of 1888-1889 (with references to previous works) are described by E . Brizio in Monumenti dei Lincei (1891), i .

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