It is not uncommon to see parents volunteering within Reggio Emilia classrooms throughout the school.

* Reggio or Regio, usual Italian name in the Middle and Modern age.

Numerous occupying armies came to Reggio during the early Middle Ages due to the city's strategic importance.

According to legend, Parmigiano-Reggiano was created in the course of the Middle Ages in Bibbiano, in the province of Reggio Emilia.

According to Lodovico Vedriani, there were two suits of her armour in the " Quattro Castelli " until 1622, when they were sold in the market of Reggio.

Born in Palmi near Reggio di Calabria, Cilea gave early indication of an aptitude for music when at the age of four he heard a performance of Vincenzo Bellini's Norma and was greatly affected by it.

Under Greek rule, Reggio became a Polis of Magna Græcia: it was governed by the Messenians, from 737 to 461 BC ; by Syracuse from 387 to 351 BC, when it was known as Febea and then by the Campanians although for a time in the V-III centuries BC, it was also a republic.

Only Reggio was left in Byzantine hands when Guiscard returned to Apulia.

While it is not known where he received his rudimentary music training, he sang at a church in Rome from 1676 to 1677 and at the Milan cathedral from 1681 until 1685, when he was dismissed for “ misconduct .” Thereafter, he made his one recorded appearance in opera at Reggio nell ’ Emilia in 1687 ( in Varischino ’ s Odoacre ) and was based for a time in Genoa.

Even with this bridge between school and home, many people wonder what happens to Reggio children when they make the transition from this style of education to a non Reggio Emilia school.

The republic ended in 1326 when Cardinal Bertrando del Poggetto annexed Reggio to the Papal States.

During ancient times, when the settlement of Luni, originally founded by the Romans in 177 BC, ( today a site of significant Roman ruins and a modern museum ) was a flourishing city and harbour, the Romans had already built solid defensive posts along the Via Aurelia, a major road which linked up central Italy to Lunigiana and from Lunigiana to both the coastal road through Liguria and to Gaul ( modern France ) and across the Apennines into what is now the province of Reggio Emilia.

Five years later Boiardo was invested with the governorship of Reggio, an office which he filled with noted success till his death, except for a brief interval ( 1481 – 86 ) when he was governor of Modena.

They continued to rule the Duchy of Modena and Reggio in the Emilia until 1796, when it became part of Napoleon Bonaparte's Cispadane Republic.

Inducks sometimes gave talks and held meetings in comic-book fairs in Italy, such as in Lucca in 1997 with Don Rosa and Marco Rota and in Reggio Emilia in 2007 and 2008.

The most important translator of Galen's works into Latin was Niccolò di Deoprepio da Reggio, who spent several years working on Galen.

She was the daughter of Boniface III, ruler of many counties, among them Reggio, Modena, Mantua, Brescia, and Ferrara.

Arriving in the city of Reggio ( having travelled from Modena ), Bargrave was stopped by the city guard who inspected his books on suspicion some may have been on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.

The first dated Hebrew printed book was Rashi's commentary on the Chumash, printed by Abraham ben Garton in Reggio di Calabria, Italy, 18 February 1475.

He advanced on Calabria and attempted a landing in Sicily ; but his main army was blocked at Reggio, and he retreated from Calabria entirely on 3 August.

We know that the sculptor Léarchos was at Reggio at the beginning of the XV century BC, and that Iokastos was King of Reggio at the end of the XIII century BC.

The last Ausonian ruler was king Italus, from whom the name of Italy is derived: the land round Reggio was at first known as Saturnia and then Italia, which in Roman times became the name of the whole peninsula, but in those days corresponded only to present-day southern Calabria, which was also known later as Bruzium.

Reggio was one of the most important cities in Greater Greece, reaching great economic and political power during the 5th and 6th centuries BC under the Anaxilas government.

After the invasions by the Vandals, the Longobards and the Goths in the 5th-6th centuries AD, Reggio became the capital of the " metropolis of the Byzantine possessions in southern Italy " and several times between 536 and 1060 AD it was also the capital of the Duchy of Calabria and linchpin of the Greek church in Italy.

In addition to being a Byzantine centre of culture, during the 8th century the city became a Holy See: Reggio was until the 16th century, the most important Greek Rite Bishopric in Italy.

For hundreds of years Reggio was taken by various factions.

For 413 years Reggio was the capital of the Calabrian ‘ Giustizierato ’, from 1147 to 1443 and from 1465 to 1582.

Reggio, because of its geographical position was often contested between the Kingdom of Naples ( on continental Italy ) and the Kingdom of Sicily, in fact between 1266 and 1503 Reggio passed between the rule of the Aragonese, who called it Regols and who enlarged its medioeval castle and also of the Angevins.

Napoleon's fall in 1814 saw the Reggio returned to its original name, the Regio.

* Rashi's commentary on the Torah is the first dated book to be printed in Hebrew, in Reggio di Calabria.

Greeks settled heavily along the coast at an early date and several of their settlements, including the first Italian city called Rhegion ( Reggio Calabria ), and the next ones Sybaris, Kroton ( Crotone ), a settlement where the mathematician Pythagoras later resided, and Locri, were numbered among the leading cities of Magna Graecia during the 6th and 5th centuries BC.

The precious citrus fruit, Bergamot, which had been cultivated and used in the Reggio area since the XIV century, was, in 1750, for the first time in the world grown and produced intensively.

Brun Antonio Rossi, the mayor of Reggio after Domenico Spanò Bolani who helped the citizenship during the previous turbulent years, was the first in the kingdom to proclaim the new Garibaldi Dictatorship and the end of the rule of Francis II.

The film is often compared to Koyaanisqatsi, the first of the Qatsi films by Godfrey Reggio for which Fricke was cinematographer.

It was the first place in Sicily where that leader landed, having eluded the vigilance of the Carthaginians, who were guarding the Straits of Messina, and crossed direct from Rhegium ( modern Reggio di Calabria ) to Tauromenium.

In 1986 she received the honourary citizenship of Reggio nell ′ Emilia ( Italy ), the first world's town that assigned this important award to Albertina Sisulu.

The first Eurovision Young Dancers Competition final was held at Teatro Municipale in Reggio Emilia, Italy on June 16, 1985.

The following year, Antonello received his first commission as an independent artist, a banner for the Confraternità di San Michele dei Gerbini in Reggio Calabria.

Among the most prominent representatives of this school must be mentioned Giacomo Capoccio of Viterbo ( d. 1307 ) and Augustinus Triumphus ( d. 1328 ), both of them his contemporaries, and also students and professors in the University of Paris: Prosper of Reggio, Albert of Padua, Gerard of Siena, Henry of Frimar, Thomas of Strasburg — all in the first half of the fourteenth century.

Tournaments he has won or shared first include the 1969 Swedish Chess Championship, Göteborg 1971, Dortmund 1973, Camagüez 1974, Cienfuegos 1975, Belgrade 1977, Buenos Aires 1978, Hastings 1978 – 79, Phillips & Drew 1980, Johannesburg 1981, Phillips & Drew 1982, Turin 1982, Wijk aan Zee 1983, Reggio Emilia 1985, Rome 1985, and Rome 1986.

In January 2010 Kamsky won the 52nd Reggio Emilia chess tournament ( he came equal first with Zoltán Almási, defeating him in the last round, but had a better Buchholz tiebreak ).

His Latin dictionary, under the title of Cornucopiæ, appeared first in 1502 at Reggio.

The first planting in Italy was in 1797, and it became a favored crop in the Province of Reggio Calabria.

Reggio became a judicial administration centre, with a forum called at first Regium Lepidi, then simply Regium, whence the city's current name.

He was the first son of a knight from Ferrara, who was in charge of the Citadel, and a noblewoman from Reggio, Daria Maleguzzi Valeri.

The first Versace boutique was opened in Milan's Via della Spiga in 1978, ( though the Versace family are from Reggio Calabria ) and its popularity was immediate.

He won at Reggio Emilia 1971 – 72 and was equal first at New York 1977.

Italian kabbalists, among them Behr Perlhefter, the first Maggid in the study hall of Abraham Rovigo, and Benjamin ben Eliezer ha-Kohen, rabbi of Reggio, called him to Italy about 1678, where he was very popular for a time.

In 1744, at the age of nineteen, Penthièvre married Princess Maria Teresa Felicitas of Modena, ( 1726-1754 ), the daughter of Francesco III d ' Este, the sovereign Duke of Modena and Reggio, and his first cousin, Charlotte Aglaé d ' Orléans.

The station shows up in the first part of the Godfrey Reggio movie Naqoyqatsi and is frequently used by Michael Bay in such films as The Island and Transformers.