Jewish Cemetery

As far back as the early 16C, Bozzolo records the presence of a lending bank run by Jews but it was in the middle of that century that a large Jewish community formed, following the expulsion of Jews  from the papal dominions and subsequently, by Philip II King of Spain, from the Duchy of Milan. In 1611, Isabella Gonzaga da Novellara, the wife of Ferrante and mother of Scipione Gonzaga, granted the community permission to open a cemetery in the village. In 1797, the government instructed that burial places were to be moved outside towns and villages and a new cemetery was opened, used until 1904, to which some stones from the older one were moved. In 1999, thanks to the generous intervention of Dr Claudio Segré, a descendant of a local family, the cemetery was restored and completed with the reconstruction of the funeral chamber.