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Adria
Italy, officially the Italian Republic or Repubblica Italiana, is a Southern European country comprising of the Po River valley, the Italian Peninsula and the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. It is shaped like a boot and for this reason Italians commonly call it lo Stivale, the boot or, due to its prevalent peninsular geographical nature, la Penisola, the Peninsula.
Adria is a town in the province of Rovigo in the Veneto region of Northern Italy, situated between the mouths of the rivers Adige and Po. It is the seat of a diocese, unlike Rovigo itself. The Etruscan city of Adria underlies the modern city, three to four meters below the current level. Adria gave its name at any early period to the Adriatic Sea, to which it was connected through channels.
The Etruscan controlled area of the Po Valley was generally known as Padan Etruria, as opposed to their main concentration along the Tyrhhenian coast south of the Arno. The Villanovan culture, named for an archaeological site at the village of Villanova, near Bologna, flourished in this area from the 10th century until as late as the 6th century. Pliny the Elder, a Roman author and fleet commander, wrote about a system of channels in Adria that was, first made by the Tuscans, thus discharging the flow of the river across the marshes of the Adriani called the Seven Seas, with the famous harbor of the Tuscan town of Adria which formerly gave the name of Adriatic to the sea now called the Adriatic.
As it is often regarded as among the most beautiful parts of Italy, it is one of the most visited places amongst the most die-hard travelers the world over.
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