War of the Bucket
Modena fights Bologna, and the winner takes a bucket
In 1325 Modena routed a Bolognese army several times its size at Zappolino, one of the largest battles of medieval Italy. The trophy was a wooden bucket taken from a Bologna well; legend says the war started over it.
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The wooden bucket that Modena and Bologna supposedly went to war over has been kept in Modena for some 700 years. It was seized in 1325, and in the 17th century Tassoni mocked the war in his poem "The Rape of the Bucket". Share →
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