 The protagonist of this spectacular urban management was Prince Cornelio – then Ippolito – with the help of the engineer, architect and set designer Giovanni Battista Aleotti, known as ‘L’Argenta’, active in Ferrara and Parma, where ten years later he would produce the Teatro Farnese (a Renaissance theatre in Palazzo della Pilotta).The urban landscape of Gualtieri, like other new cities of the Renaissance, was designed to include the old village within the new layout.In the square, three streets merge, opening up the perspective on the three main sites of interest