Gattatico (Reggiano: Gatâtich, Gâtadegh or Gadàdegh) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Reggio Emilia in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna.

For example, the current Via Zappellazzo overlaps with the route of the ancient Via Tabularia, an important road for connecting the villages along the Po River with the Reggio Emilia hills.

Later, in the year 568, when the Lombards, led by King Alboin, spread throughout the Po Valley, they encountered little resistance in the cities and conquered extensive territories.

The territory was initially administered by General Governor Moreau de Saint-Méry and later by Prefect Hugues Nardon and it was subjected to the new French Civil Code issued by Napoleon.

Finally, in 1848, it came under the rule of the Duchy of Modena and Reggio once again, under the dominion of the House of Este with Archduke Francis V. After the Second Italian War of Independence, Gattatico was reconstituted as an autonomous municipality by a dictatorial decree of Carlo Luigi Farini.

During the five years of the Second World War and the Resistance against Nazi-Fascism, Gattatico paid a heavy price with the deaths of 52 soldiers and dozens of other civilian victims.

The Italian economic miracle of the late 1950s brought new industrial and artisanal settlements, initiating a slow process of transformation in the local economy.