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San Giovanni in Persiceto
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.
San Giovanni in Persiceto is a town and municipality in the province of Bologna, northern Italy. Historic sources do not mention the area in the late Roman period, perhaps these lands and people were hit by Barbaric invasions, definitely by floods, whose consequences are still evident in the eastern side of the city. The relinquished lands turned swampy and woody again until, under the rule of the Exarchate of Ravenna, the work of water control was taken over again.
In the Byzantine era a defensive line built against the Lombards split up the territory, but these could break through it around 727 under King Liutprand and occupied, among other things, the Castrum Persiceta. It is likely that the typical urbis-form of the old town centre could derive from the Lombard era: the Borgo Rotondo. With the fall of the Lombard Kingdom the early-medieval district of Persiceto belonged for a long period to the County of Modena that stretched up to the Samoggia creek.
A city known for its historic myths and traditions, scenic beauty, cooperative people and luxurious hotels and cottages, San Giovanni in Persiceto is one of the favorite holiday destinations for most of the vacation lovers.
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