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 Propertalia - The Definitive Guide to Buying Property in Ferrara, Italy
Rimini is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, population 134,378 (November 2004).
Emilia Romagna is one of the most extensive regions of Italy that borders the Adriatic and the Po River.
Ferrara, a town, an archiepiscopal see and a province in Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
www.propertalia.com /html/ferrara.htm   (337 words)

  
 Italy - School Directory
A region in central Italy, bordering on Latium to the south, Umbria to the east, Emilia-Romagna and Liguria to the north, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west.
Lazio (Latium) is a region of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany, Umbria, Abruzzo, Molise, Campania and the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Provinces of Tuscany include: Florence (Firenze), capital town of the region, Siena, Grosseto, principal town of Maremma, Pistoia, Arezzo, Lucca, Massa Carrara, Livorno, Pisa, and Prato.
www.teachingabroad.net /artman/publish/cat_index_18.shtml   (446 words)

  
 Padania (Italy)
Italy is divided into Regions: Padania is more or less composed of Lombardia (the Region where I live), Piemonte, Liguria, Veneto, Emilia (half of Region Emilia-Romagna).
From a linguistic point of view, the regions of Northern Italy (from Piedmont to Romagna, excluding Trentino, Veneto and Friuli) belong to the Gallo-Italic dialect group, which could be considered for some aspects more similar to French than to Tuscan or other Southern-Central Italian dialects.
Geographically the northern part of Italy is called 'Val Padana' (Padana Valley) and 'padano' is the adjective related to it, e.g.
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 Padania (Italy)
Italy is divided into Regions: Padania is more or less composed of Lombardia (the Region where I live), Piemonte, Liguria, Veneto, Emilia (half of Region Emilia-Romagna).
From a linguistic point of view, the regions of Northern Italy (from Piedmont to Romagna, excluding Trentino, Veneto and Friuli) belong to the Gallo-Italic dialect group, which could be considered for some aspects more similar to French than to Tuscan or other Southern-Central Italian dialects.
Geographically the northern part of Italy is called 'Val Padana' (Padana Valley) and 'padano' is the adjective related to it, e.g.
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 Padania (Italy)
Italy is divided into Regions: Padania is more or less composed of Lombardia (the Region where I live), Piemonte, Liguria, Veneto, Emilia (half of Region Emilia-Romagna).
I realize that Italy was a series of smaller independent or semi-independent states as recently as the middle of last century.
Because of its history, Italy was really a collection of peoples with different cultures and even idioms but after the two World Wars Italian peoples became one nation, thanks to State schools and radio-television.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/it-pad.html   (1844 words)

  
 Parma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Parma is a medieval city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, with splendid architecture and a fine countryside around it.
The combined Duchy of Parma and Piacenza was given to the House of Bourbon in a diplomatic shuffle of the European dynastic politics that were played out in Italy.
Parma is also famous for food: its cheese "Parmigiano Reggiano" (which pride it shares with Reggio Emilia), for its Parma ham, and now for its international commercial brand Parmalat.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parma,_Italy   (404 words)

  
 Propertalia - The Definitive Guide to Buying Property in Rimini, Italy
Rimini is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, population 134,378 (November 2004).
Bologna (from Latin Bononia, Bulaggna in the local dialect) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, between the Po River and the Apennines.
The long coastline is quite popular with northern Europeans—especially around Rimini—and offers some of the most economical lodging in all of Italy.
www.propertalia.com /html/rimini.htm   (377 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Cooking of Parma
Having lived in Italy for 8 years myself, I learned to fully appreciate the foods of Emilia-Romagna, the region in which Parma sits.
This isn't Indian cuisine; but cooking from the western region of Italy, where prosciutto is king.
Italy's Parma region has given the world prosciutto and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, two products that alone bestow culinary renown.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0847819264?v=glance   (1085 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Italy
Tuscany (Italian Toscana) is a region in central Italy, bordering on Latium to the south, Umbria and Marche to the east, Emilia-Romagna and Liguria to the north, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west.
Campania is a region of Southern Italy, bordering on Lazio to the north-west, Molise to the north, Puglia to the north-east, Basilicata to the east, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west.
Main article: Regions of Italy The Regions of Italy were granted a degree of regional autonomy in the 1948 constitution, which states that the constitutions role is: to recognize, protect and promote local autonomy, to ensure that services at the State level are as decentralized as possible, and to adapt the principles and laws...
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Italy   (6841 words)

  
 Italian A to Z Place Finder - Over 600 Places in Italy Listed.
Castelfranco Emilia - A town or city in the province of Modena in the region of Emilia Romagna
Cagliari - A Province in the region of Sardinia
Caltanissetta - A Province in the region of Sicily
www.lifeinitaly.co.uk /Italy-AtoZ/Italy-C.htm   (6841 words)

  
 IIC VANCOUVER - Links: Tourism
Primitaly is a project devoted to the promotion of tourism in Italy, with pages on every Italian region and information on events, hotels, and more.
The tourism page of the Regione Emilia-Romagna's official website - there is also a new section devoted to cultural activities and institutions in the region (in 5 languages, incl.
Discoveritalia is a portal to tourism and culture in Italy (in Italian, English and German).
www.iicvan-ca.org /iicvan/lk-tour-en.htm   (1870 words)

  
 Phi Kappa Phi Forum: Regions of Italy: A Reference Guide to History and Culture, The
Each chapter begins with a short description of the region's characteristics, economy, cuisine, history, and recent politics, and is followed by subchapters that describe the history and the cultural and artistic importance of the region's most important cities.
Few Western nations have changed so much as Italy has in the past sixty-odd years; it would be a gross misconception to think of Italy only as the cradle of the Renaissance or as the romantic destination of vacationers eager to glide along the canals of Venice in a gondola.
Italy is now a robust post-urban society with a host of successes and a plethora of problems.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4026/is_200207/ai_n9106171   (1111 words)

  
 Emilia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emilia is an historical region of Italy, now merged with Romagna to form the Emilia-Romagna administrative region.
The word Emilia may refer to any of the following:
Emilia (Bulgarian: Емилия) is a famous Bulgarian pop-folk singer.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emilia   (178 words)

  
 WineCountry.it, Italian Wine Regions, Italian DOC wines, red, white, dessert, sparkling wine
We open 2006 introducing the Cantina di Bazzano, a winery from the Bologna area in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy, which has been producing Pignoletto for about three quarter of a century.
We will start 2006 by completing the article about Molise, the small Italian region which used to be the other half of Abruzzo-Molise in the past.
We are gathering Italian regional recipes and information about specialty food products from each of the Italian wine regions on an ongoing basis.
winecountry.it   (1642 words)

  
 Haznews: Industry in Emilia Romagna demands hazwaste facilities@ HighBeam Research
The lack of treatment and disposal facilities the Emilia Romagna region of northern Italy, continues to create problems for industry in the region.
The Emilia Romagna Region claimed it would exhaust its capacity for special and industrial wastes in 1988 (see HAZNEWS, April 1988, p.
The facilities were proposed for the province of Bologna as part of the region's emergency waste plan.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:42557190&refid=holomed_1   (204 words)

  
 Emilia-Romagna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emilia-Romagna is an administrative region of Northern Italy comprising the two historic regions of Emilia and Romagna.
Emilia refers to via Emilia, an important Roman way connecting Rome to the northern part of Italy.
The principal city is Bologna, an historic, cultural and entertainment center of national importance.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emilia-Romagna   (273 words)

  
 Emilia Romagna and Bologna, Villas For Sale
The National and Regional parks represent the "green heart" of Emilia Romagna and testify to the importance attributed to the protection and promotion of the natural beauty and landscapes of the region.
Emilia Romagna boasts some of the most beautiful towns in Italy overflowing with Byzantine art and architecture.
The region's most notable cities are Bologna, Parma, Piacenza, Modena, Reggio Emilia, Rimini, Ravenna, Ferrara and the smaller town of Busseto.
www.lacasaemilia.com /emilia-romagna.htm   (608 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for Italy
Northwest Italy, region of Piacenza to that of Ravenna, and between the Po and the Adriatic and the Apennines, in the territories of Emilia and Romagna, southern Pianura Padana (all provinces), southern Lombardia (Provinces Mantova and Pavia), northern Toscana (Lunigiana), northern Marche (Province Pesaro).
Northern Italy, city of Venice, area of the Tre Venezie; Venezia Eugànea westward to Verona, southward to the Po, and eastward to the border of the Fruili; Venezia Tridentina, in the Adige valley and neighboring mountain regions to the north of Trent; and Venezia Giulia, east of the Friuli, and including Trieste.
South Bavarian is in the Bavarian Alps, Tyrol, Styria, including Heanzian dialect of Burgenland, Carinthia, northern Italy, and part of Gottschee; Central Bavarian is in the Alps and Lower Austria and Salzburg; North Bavarian in the north of Regensburg, to Nuremburg and Western Bohemia, Czech Republic.
www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Italy   (1407 words)

  
 Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Emilia Romagna
Emilia Romagna is a vast and well-populated region of the eastern Padana Plain connecting Northern and Central Italy, named for the Via Emilia, the Roman consular road built in the 2nd century BC by the Marcus Emilius Lepidus.
It was in Reggio Emilia during the Italian Risorgimento that the tricolour flag, later to become the flag of a unified Italy, was first used.
Provinces: Bologna, Reggio Emilia, Parma, Piacenza, Modena, Ferrara, Forlì, Ravenna and Rimini
www.esteri.it /MAE/eng/7_45_109_166.asp   (1407 words)

  
 Rimini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rimini is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, population 135,034 (May 2005) and capital city of the Rimini Province.
Rimini, which drew the attention of many emperors, Augustus and Hadrian in particular, was experiencing a great period in its history, embodied by the construction of prestigious monuments such as the Arch of Augustus, Tiberius' Bridge and the Amphitheatre.
In 1797, Rimini along with the rest of Romagna was influenced by the passage of the Jacobin troops and became part of the Cisalpine Republic.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rimini,_Italy   (862 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for Italy
Northwest Italy, region of Piacenza to that of Ravenna, and between the Po and the Adriatic and the Apennines, in the territories of Emilia and Romagna, southern Pianura Padana (all provinces), southern Lombardia (Provinces Mantova and Pavia), northern Toscana (Lunigiana), northern Marche (Province Pesaro).
Northern Italy, city of Venice, area of the Tre Venezie; Venezia Eugànea westward to Verona, southward to the Po, and eastward to the border of the Fruili; Venezia Tridentina, in the Adige valley and neighboring mountain regions to the north of Trent; and Venezia Giulia, east of the Friuli, and including Trieste.
Milan, Lombardy, 3 valleys of Graubünden (Val Mesolcina, Val Bregaglia, Val Poschiavo), northern Italy.
www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Italy   (862 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for Italy
Northwest Italy, region of Piacenza to that of Ravenna, and between the Po and the Adriatic and the Apennines, in the territories of Emilia and Romagna, southern Pianura Padana (all provinces), southern Lombardia (Provinces Mantova and Pavia), northern Toscana (Lunigiana), northern Marche (Province Pesaro).
Northern Italy, city of Venice, area of the Tre Venezie; Venezia Eugànea westward to Verona, southward to the Po, and eastward to the border of the Fruili; Venezia Tridentina, in the Adige valley and neighboring mountain regions to the north of Trent; and Venezia Giulia, east of the Friuli, and including Trieste.
Northeast Italy, Sette and Tredici Comuni (Sieben and Dreizehn Gemeinde) south of Trent, towns of Giazza (Glietzen, Ljetzen), Roana (Rabam), Lusern, some in Venetia Province.
www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Italy   (1407 words)

  
 Parma, Italy
Parma is situated in Emilia-Romagna, a region of northern Italy.
Parma was founded in 183 B.C. by 2000 Roman citizens as part of a colonization project in which the nearby towns of Piacenza, Modena and Bologna were also established.
Parma is a city of 200,000 people, rich with culture, art, tradition and history.
www.sccs.swarthmore.edu /users/99/maya/parma.html   (659 words)

  
 Project Casa Europa, Institutions
Since the beginning of 1997 the project "Casa Europa" has been carried out in association with partners from the province of Forli/Cesena (region Emilia Romagna, Italy) and the region of Murcia (municipalities of Cehegn, Bullas and Calasparra, Spain) with financial help of the European programme EFRE, article 10.
It was founded in 1993 and among its members there are 14 towns and municipalities, the region of Kassel, the regional occupational house of Hofgeismar-Wolfhagen, the regional peasant association, the Protestant parish of Hofgeismar, the regional association of countrywomen, trade unions as well as other regional associations, institutions, initiatives and individuals.
The association for the regional development in the region of Kassel is responsible for the coordination on the project "Casa Europa" in the region and they will kindly answer any questions you should have concerning the participant regions, accommodation premises and the planned exchanges.
www.casaeuropa.org /organismos_gb.html   (659 words)

  
 Hotels In Modena - Modena Italy Hotels - Modena Hotels
The Raffaello hotel is located in Modena, which is in the centre of the Emilia Romagna region and it is an ideal base for visits to the North as well as South of Italy.
You may also use the hotel search form below to find only available hotels in Modena Italy for your check-in and check-out dates.
Book Modena Italy Hotels online using the Modena Hotel Finder online hotel reservation system.
www.hotelfinders.ws /italy/modena.html   (113 words)

  
 Raffaello Hotel Modena in Modena, Italy
The Raffaello hotel is located in the city centre of Modena, in the Emilia Romagna region and for this reason it is the ideal base for visits to the North and South of Italy.
With its elegant environment, rooms equipped with every comfort and professional and discreet staff your stay is transformed into an unforgettable holiday.
The Rafaello hotel can be easily reached by either the motorway exit A1 Modena Nord or from the city's train station.
www.travellerspoint.com /hotels-detail.cfm?HotelID=14692   (121 words)

  
 Raffaello Hotel Modena Italy accommodation
The Raffaello hotel is positioned in Modena, which is near the heart of the Emilia Romagna region and it is an ideal base for visits to the North as well as South of Italy.
Strolling along the streets and under the characteristic arches you are attracted by the charm of the city that blends history and ancient tradition.
Modena Hotels in Italy - OnlineHotels © 2005
www.online-hotels-italy.com /raffaello-hotel-modena.htm   (134 words)

  
 Veneto - Open Encyclopedia
Veneto is a region in northeastern Italy, bordering on Lombardy, Trentino-South Tyrol, Austria,Friuli - Venezia Giulia, and Emilia-Romagna, between the Alps and the Adriatic Sea.
Map higlighting the location of Veneto in Italy
It is traversed by the Po, Adige, Brenta and Piave rivers.
open-encyclopedia.com /Veneto   (134 words)

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