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Sassuolo

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Comune di Sassuolo
Image:Stemma Sassuolo.gif Municipal coat of arms
Country	Italy
Region	Emilia-Romagna
Province	Modena (MO)
Mayor	Graziano Pattuzzi (since June 14, 2004)

Elevation	121 m
Area	38 km²
Population
- Total (as of December 31, 2004)	41,746
- Density	979/km²
Time zone	CET, UTC+1
Coordinates	44°33′N 10°47′E^[1]
Gentilic	Sassolesi
Dialing code	0536
Postal code	41049
Frazioni	San Michele, Montegibbio, Casara
Patron	St. George
- Day	April 23
Website: www.comune.sassuolo.mo.it

Sassuolo is an industrial town south of Modena and north west of Bologna in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. The town's wealth derives from being the centre of the Italian (and thus global) tile industry for many decades. Cheaper tiles first from Spain and then from China have economically damaged the town, leaving an unclear role for it in the future.

Among the main sights in the town is the summer Ducal palace of Sassuolo completed and decorated mainly in the 17th century for the Dukes of Este. the architect was Bartolommeo Avanzini in 1634. The interior was frescoed by the French baroque painter Jean Boulanger, as well as by Angelo M. Colonna and Agostino Mitelli. In the ground is a large pool surrounded by ruins called Il fontanazzo.