Poggio Rusco (Lower Mantovano:Al Pòs) is a small town andcomune in theProvince of Mantua, whose inhabitants number 6,474 as of August 31, 2020. It is 42 kilometres (26 mi) from the provincial capital.
A popular story about the origin of the name said that this place was used by bolognese people as dump; dump in bolognese language was "rusco", and because of it this town now is called Poggio Rusco.