Editing Modena (section)

==Culture==

===Museums===
{{Main category|Museums in Modena}}

====Museum Palace====
The Museum Palace, on the St. Augustine square, is an example of civil architecture from the Este period, built as a Hostel for the poor, together with the nearby Hospital in the late 18th century. Today it houses the main museums of Modena:
* [[Estense Gallery]], with works by [[Tintoretto]], [[Paolo Veronese]], [[Guido Reni]], [[Correggio]], [[Cosmé Tura]] and brothers [[Annibale Carracci|Annibale]] and [[Agostino Carracci]]. The most famous works are the two portraits of Francis I d'Este, a sculpture by [[Gian Lorenzo Bernini]] and a canvas by [[Diego Velázquez]].
* [[Biblioteca Estense|Estense Library]], one of the most important libraries in Italy.
* Museum of Medieval and Modern Art.
* Municipal Museum of [[Risorgimento]].
* Este Headstones Museum.
* Roman Lapidary Museum.
* Graziosi Gallery of Plaster Casts.
* City Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

The Estense Gallery and Library have reopened on 29 May 2015 after the [[2012 Northern Italy earthquakes|earthquake of 2012]]. The Gallery has been completely restored but some pieces are still damaged and thus cannot be seen.

====Museums of the Cathedral====
Opened for the [[Great Jubilee]] in 2000, the Museum of the Cathedral houses a rich collection of artistic heritage, in particular liturgical ornaments and furnishings. Apart from the finds of the cathedral building site by Wiligelmus and Lanfranco, such as romanesque metopes and roof decorations, in the Lapidary there are also reliefs, sculptures and inscriptions of the Roman, Medieval and Renaissance era found in the cathedral area during the restoration works between the 19th and the 20th century.

====Museum Enzo Ferrari====
Inaugurated on 10 March 2012, the [[Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari|museum complex]] includes [[Enzo Ferrari]]'s birthplace and a futuristic automotive design gallery, painted in the yellow that Enzo Ferrari chose as the background for the Prancing horse on his logo. The exhibition gallery was designed by the famous architect [[Jan Kaplický]], who suddenly died in 2009, and carried on by his associate and loyal assistant Andrea Morgante.

The interior features a multimedia display of pictures, unpublished films and precious mementoes of Enzo Ferrari's life as a man, driver and car-maker throughout the 20th century.

The Exhibition Gallery houses a flexible mounting representing story, figures, places and races of the Modenese sport motor racing.

====Museum of Collectible Cards====
Founded in 1986 by Giuseppe Panini, who then decided to donate his collection to the city, the [[Museo della figurina]] was opened to the public on 15 December 2006. It is located inside the Santa Margherita Palace, which also houses the Delfini Library and the City Gallery.

The Museum houses several collections, including, apart from the classic stickers, cigarette cards, letter seals, matchboxes and calendars, all of which represent a very important historical document of the development of picture cards throughout the years.

===Teatro Comunale Modena===
The [[Teatro Comunale Modena]] (Community Theatre of Modena, but renamed in October 2007 as "Teatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti") is an [[opera house]] in Modena. The idea for the creation of the present theatre dates from 1838, when it became apparent that the then-existing Teatro Comunale di via Emilia (in dual private and public ownership) was no longer suitable for staging opera.  However, this house had been the venue for presentations of all of the works of [[Donizetti]], [[Vincenzo Bellini|Bellini]] and [[Rossini]] up to this time, and a flourishing operatic culture existed in Modena.

Under the Mayor of Modena in collaboration with the [[Conservatorio dell'Illustrissima Comunità]] (Conservatory of the Most Illustrious Community), architect [[Francesco Vandelli]] was engaged to design the Teatro dell'Illustrissima Comunità, as the theatre was first called, "for the dignity of the city and for the transmission of the scenic arts".<ref>Quoted in Lynn, p.191</ref> Paid for in the manner typical of the time – from the sale of boxes – in addition to a significant gift from Duke Friedrich IV, Vandelli created a design for the new theatre combining ideas from those in [[Piacenza]], [[Mantua]], and [[Milan]], and it opened on 2 October 1841 with a performance of [[Gandini (opera composer)|Gandini]]'s ''Adelaide di Borgogna al Castello di Canossa'', an opera specially commissioned for the occasion.

===Cuisine===
[[File:Cotechino-Servito-Polenta-Lenticchie.jpg|right|thumb|''Cotechino Modena'', as served with [[polenta]] and [[lentils]]]]
Modena has a rich and diversified cuisine, often including meats, hams and salamis. One of the most famous ''modenese'' dishes is ''[[Cotechino Modena|zampone]]'' (the fatter and heartier version) or ''[[cotechino Modena]]'' (''cotechino'' is leaner and less fat than ''zampone''). ''Cotechino'' dates back to around 1511 to [[Mirandola]], where, whilst besieged, the people had to find a way to preserve meat and use the less tender cuts, so made the ''cotechino''. By the 18th century it had become more popular than the yellowish sausage had been around at the time, and in the 19th century was in [[mass production]] in and around the area.

Modena's contribution to the Italian pasta culture are ''[[tortellini]]'' and ''[[tortelloni]]'', which are squares of pasta shaped in the form of a ring and stuffed with meat or cheese.

''[[Cappello del prete]]'' is also a popular meal, which is a very fatty pig's trotter. Other dishes include ''[[torta Barozzi]]'' or ''[[Torta Barozzi|torta nera]]'', which is a black tart (a dessert made with a coffee/cocoa and almond filling encased in a fine pastry dough), ''[[ciccioli]]'', made by slowly cooking, compressing, drying, and aging fatty, leftover pieces of pork, and ''pesto modenese'', which is cured pork back fat pounded with garlic, rosemary and [[Parmesan]], used to fill borlenghi and crescentine.

[[Balsamic vinegar of Modena]] became a [[protected geographical indication]] under EU law in 2000.<ref>{{CELEX|32000R0813|text=Council Regulation (EC) No 813/2000 of 17 April 2000 supplementing the Annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1107/96 on the registration of geographical indications and designations of origin under the procedure laid down in Article 17 of Regulation (EEC) No 2081/92}}, designating balsamic vinegars from Modena and Reggio Emilia.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-11-04 |title=History of the consortium |url=https://www.consorziobalsamico.it/consortium/history-of-the-consortium/?lang=en |access-date=2023-05-30 |website=Consorzio Tutela Aceto Balsamico di Modena |language=en-US}}</ref>{{Verify source|date=May 2023|reason=discrepancy in dates}} The Balsamic Vinegar is a condiment for salad, cheese, strawberries and many other dishes. The practice of cooking the must of grapes can be traced back to the ancient Romans: the so-called sapum was used both as a medicinal product and in the kitchen as a sweetener and condiment. The long history of the Balsamic Vinegar came to us through centuries and now is most consumed abroad than in Italy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Balsamic Vinegar |url=https://www.italiaregina.it/balsamic-vinegar/ |access-date=2023-05-30 |website=Italiaregina.it |language=en-US}}</ref>{{Better source needed example|date=May 2023}}

Modena contains Italy's most acclaimed restaurant, [[Osteria Francescana]], which holds three stars in the [[Michelin Guide]] since 2013 and, as of 2018, has been named as the best restaurant in the world in [[The World's 50 Best Restaurants]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/worlds-best-restaurants-2018/index.html|title=World's best restaurant for 2018|date=19 June 2018|work=CNN Travel|access-date=18 November 2018|language=en}}</ref>

=== Arts ===
Art studio [[fuse*]] is based in Modena.