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 Ferrara, Italy
Ferrara, capital of the province of the same name, lies 5km/3mi south of the River Po in the fertile north Italian plain.
Ferrara, see of an archbishop, and with a small university, was once the splendid capital of the dukes of Este and an important trading center.
Girolamo Savonarola was born in Ferrara in 1452.
www.planetware.com /italy/ferrara-i-er-fe.htm   (216 words)

  
 Ferrara - Emilia-Romagna - Italy
Ferrara hosts Synagogues and a Jewish Museum, in the heart of the medieval centre, close to the Cathedral and the Castello Estense.
This street was part of the ghetto in which the Jews were separated from the rest of the population of Ferrara from 1627 to 1859.
The origin of Ferrara is uncertain, it was probably a settlement formed by the inhabitants of the lagoons at the mouth of the Po.
www.italyworldclub.com /emilia/ferrara/ferrara.htm   (1089 words)

  
 Ferrara Italy Tourist, Travel and Hotels guide.
Ferrara is a town, an archiepiscopal see and a province in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, capital city of the province of Ferrara.
Ferrara is on the main rail line from Bologna to Padua and Venice, and has branches to Ravenna and Poggio Rusco (for Suzzara).
Ferrara, which grew up around a ford over the River Po, became an intellectual and artistic centre that attracted the greatest minds of the Italian Renaissance in the 15th and 16th centuries.
www.ferrarahotels.com   (500 words)

  
 Bread and eels, sinuous shapes for old flavours
The province also produces an abundance of vegetable and fruit including the asparagus of Mesola, the garlic of Voghiera, pears, rice and pumpkins, the strawberries and water melons of Ferrara, which are the best in the world.
The paramount feature of the completely flat landscape of the province of Ferrara is water: to the north is the river Po, to the south the river Reno, to the east the Adriatic Sea and in between a large fertile plain, once nearly completely submerged.
Along the Adriatic coast of Ferrara are seven seaside resorts, surrounded by pinewoods and extensive green areas: Lido di Volano, delle Nazioni, di Pomposa, degli Scacchi, Porto Garibaldi, Lido degli Estensi and di Spina.
www.adriacoast.com /web/sites/EN/gusto/fe   (804 words)

  
 Ferrara - Castello Estense
However, Ferrara is just such a city and an exceptionally fine example.
It was dominated from the XIV to the XVII century by the Este family, who became a power on a Europeanscale between the XV and XVI century.
The traveller passes through such medieval centres of monasticism and culture as Pomposa and Comacchio and is met with the magnificent villas that were the pleasure houses of Este, where the refinement of court life could continue away from the city.
www.wonderful-italy.it /ancient/ferrara/castello.html   (639 words)

  
 Hera - Sustainability Report 2004 - APPENDIX
The 2004 operating results of the Ferrara companies are included in the Group’s consolidated data, since, for tax and accounting purposes, the merger had effects backdated to 1 January 2004.
In the water sector, Hera Ferrara manages the entire integrated water cycle in 12 municipalities of the province of Ferrara, from withdrawal from surface sources, to subsequent potability treatment in the Pontelagoscuro plant, to the release of treated wastewater in the Po river and canals.
Ferrara’s source of geothermal energy, more precisely a mineralized saltwater Mesozoic carbonate platform at a temperature of 100/105°C, was discovered around the 1960s during drilling operations.
www.gruppohera.it /bsa_eng/contenuti.php?t=8_1   (663 words)

  
 FERRARA - Online Information article about FERRARA
Church; and the house of Este was from henceforth settled in Ferrara.
Sigismund by ordering the removal of the council of Basel to Ferrara; and one of the first acts of the assemblage at Ferrara had been to excommunicate the remnant at Basel.
transfer the council to Florence: Ferrara was threatened by condottieri, the pest was raging; Florence promised a welcome subvention, and a situation further inland would make it more difficult for uneasy Greek bishops to flee the synod.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /FAT_FLA/FERRARA.html   (2720 words)

  
 Map of Ferrara. Location of Ferrara. (The province of Ferrara)
This is a map of Italy that identifies the province of Ferrara.
The province of Ferrara is a part of the Emilia Romagna region.
Italy: Index to provinces and regions in Italy.
www.pickatrail.com /jupiter/location/europe/italy/ferrara.html   (431 words)

  
 Eye from Albany
In March the Ferrara delegation returned the visit the Hudson Valley where the Greenway seeks to fashion a regional identity from the Battery in Waterford, Saratoga County to Battery Park in Manhattan based on the natural environment, heritage, and local food.
Poughkeepsie Mayor Nancy Cozean, former TV newswoman in the Albany area, hosted the welcoming dinner at Cosimos and was inspirational in talking about the colonial heritage of her city, her educational partners in city revival like Vassar and Marist colleges and efforts to help local farmers sell to local schools and in urban neighborhoods.
Carlo Alberto Roncarati, President of the Ferrara Chamber of Commerce, was equally inspirational when he spoke at a Roundtable toward the end of the visit.
www.braypapers.com /col0405.html   (595 words)

  
 Where cycling is a way of life
Ferrara has a fascinating town-plan and is a splendid city of medieval and renaissance art.
In Piazza della Cattedrale, the pulsating heart of political and religious life in the times of the D’Este family, are the Archiepiscopal Palace and the Town Hall, built in 1243 as the dukes’ residence.
As for food, in Ferrara it is a happy marriage of aristocratic and popular cuisine, starting with the salama da sugo of Renaissance tradition, a kind of pork sausage much loved by Lucrezia Borgia, and going on to pasticcio of macaroni, cappellacci with pumpkin and the spice cake called panpepato.
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 Delicious Italy - museum Argenta in province of Ferrara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Around Argenta in the province of Ferrara are five 'ecomusei'.
Argenta is 34km from Ferrara and not much further from Poggio Renatico and Sant'Agostino.
That's pork meat with fl pepper, cinnamon and cloves at Poggio Renatico and the white truffle of Bosco Panfilia at Sant'Agostino.
www.deliciousitaly.com /EmiliaRomagnatour13.htm   (297 words)

  
 Genetic structures and linguistic boundaries in Italy: A microregional approach Human Biology - Find Articles
In an effort to infer the underlying demographic processes, we studied the province's population structure by comparing geological, palaeoclimatic, archeological, historical, and linguistic data.
Results indicate that demographic phenomena can be traced in an area as small as the Province of Ferrara and that, on a microregional scale, recent events may have influenced important aspects of the overall genetic variation.
The Province of Ferrara is also well suited to a comparative investigation, because the flatness of the plain permits calculation of linear geographic distances without any necessary corrections.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3659/is_200106/ai_n8959690   (765 words)

  
 Tourist Routes in Emila-Romagna
The website of the province of Rimini presents the fortresses, the villages and the castles on the territory of the Lordship of Malatesta, situated in the south of the region.
Tourism route on the longest cycling route of Italy on the right bank of the river Po in the province of Ferrara from Stellata in Bondeno to Gorino Ferrarese, published by the Province of Ferrara.
This vast area between the provinces of Bologna, Modena and Reggio Emilia has approximately 90 routes for mountain bikes, mapped by satellite and now viable using navigation instruments and technologies.
www.aaanetserv.com /turismo/emilia/trails.html   (337 words)

  
 Governments - Provinces
Provincia di Ascoli Piceno Province of Ascoli Piceno
Autonome Provinz Bozen - Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano Autonomous Province of Bozen
Provincia di Reggio Emilia Province of Reggio Emilia
www.politicalresources.net /it-provinces.htm   (122 words)

  
 ARPA - Regional Agency for Prevention and Environment of Emilia-Romagna
To highlight the high density of monitoring of the bathing waters in the area, we should point out that, despite the fact that the DPR 470/92 directions state that monitoring sites should not be more than 2 km apart, on average in Emilia Romagna there is a site every 1.3 km.
The coast of Emilia Romagna stretches from the municipality of Goro in the province of Ferrara, to the municipality of Cattolica, which is in the province of Rimini.
It covers the provincial territories of Ferrara, Ravenna, Forlì-Cesena and Rimini, where the respective Provincial Sections of ARPA (Regional Agency for the Protection of the Environment) and the AUSL (Local Health Authorities) services of Ferrara, Ravenna, Cesena and Rimini operate.
www.arpa.emr.it /balneazione/eng/litoraneo.asp   (387 words)

  
 Province of Ferrara (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Provincia di Ferrara) is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy.
There are 26 communes in the province (source: Italian institute of statistics Istat, see this link).
We may admire his own powers-if he is handsome and clever and of a winning personality.
province-of-ferrara.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888   (151 words)

  
 Ettore Bugatti
Exactly 100 years after, with the “Ferrara Office” Club organization, the Bugatti Club Italia evoked the meeting between the young Ettore Bugatti and the Gulinelli brothers.
Before the two sons and two nephews of Ettore Bugatti, Thèrese with Geneviève and Michèl with Emanuel and some other descendants of the Gulinelli family, a commemorative plate has been set at Gulinelli palace as a memory of the friendship between the two families.
Around twenty Bugattis have been hosted in the splendid province of Ferrara on the research of suggestive places, like the delta of Po river, the Castle of the Mesola, Voghenza with the Museum of the historical modelling and the natural oasis Le Pradine.
www.bugatticlubitalia.it /raduni/eng_00_ferrara.html   (184 words)

  
 Land and Power in Late Medieval Ferrara - Cambridge University Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This book is the first modern attempt to provide a detailed analysis of the political structure of this state based on archive sources.
Much of the book is concerned with the ways by which the Este used their vast landed resources in and around Ferrara to build up and reinforce their personal political authority both within and outside their dominions.
Among the major themes examined are the continuing presence of political feudalism in the relations between the Este and their supporters, the place of the court in Ferrarese noble society, and the violent imposition of Este authority over the powerful nobles of the Apennine hills.
www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521331277   (222 words)

  
 Province of Ferrara Museums: Museums in Province of Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Province of Ferrara Museums: Museums in Province of Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)
A WorldWeb.com travel guide to Museums in Province of Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna.
Housed in the former family home of the noble d'Este family, the Pinacoteca Nazionale preserves several regional works of art from a variety of schools and eras.
www.emilia-romagna.worldweb.com.cob-web.org:8888 /ProvinceofFerrara/SightsAttractions/Museums   (75 words)

  
 Delta 2000 - Home page
Wine-tasting and gastronomic itineraries in the Province of Ferrara, Axis 3 – Rural Development Plan of the Province of Ferrara, Municipalities of the Province of Ferrara and Consortium of the Regional Park of the Po Delta.
Wine-tasting and gastronomic itinerary in the Province of Ravenna, Axis 3 – Rural Development Plan of the Province of Ravenna, Consortium of the Regional Park of the Po Delta.
A cycling route from Modena to Venice”, LAP Leader II Southern part of the Province of Ferrara.
www.deltaduemila.net /inglese/turismo2001.htm   (165 words)

  
 Sito turistico ufficiale della provincia di Ferrara
Elenco dettagliato delle strutture ricettive della provincia di Ferrara, completo di prezzi e servizi.
Guida con dettagliate indicazioni sui monumenti e musei di Ferrara e provincia, corredata da immagini.
I sette itinerari proposti nella guida attraversano un territorio dove il fascino della natura si sposa con quello di cittadine e piccoli borghi ricchi di storia, cultura e tradizioni.
sd2.provincia.fe.it /Turismo/Turismo.nsf/G3ElencoCataloghi?ReadForm&Lang=EN   (362 words)

  
 Camping Bungalow Park Tahiti - Guida Prov.FE
The tourist-road map is a useful, practical aid for all those setting out to visit the Ferrarese territorye.
Guide to the fascinating cycling tourism route along the right bank of the great river: 125 km from Stellata di Bondeno to Gorino, in the Po Delta.
The seven itineraries proposed in the guidebook span an enchanted territory in which the beauty of nature combines with that of country towns and small villages rich in history, culture and traditions.
www.campingtahiti.com /cms_published_2/RichGuida_EN.html   (155 words)

  
 The history of human migrations
The suggested multilevel approach was applied both at a regional and microregional scale, respectively in The Netherlands and in the Province of Ferrara (Italy).
The rationale for this choice was to test if structures (genetic, surname, linguistic ones) where present in small areas and to measure the statistical correlation between them.
To detect linguistic boundaries inside this area we (Province of Ferrara) have turned pronunciation differences into phonetic notation and computed pairwise distances by using methods for multiple sequence analysis, in order to obtain a distance matrix of the overall pronunciation variability.
odur.let.rug.nl /~hollebr/colloq/manni   (620 words)

  
 Emilia-Romagna food: Trail of wine and flavors of Ferrara
Road of the wines and the tastes of the province of Ferrara
These spectacular itineraries wind through a splendid succession of settings that offer a continual weave of rural, environmental and monumental beauty spots which have food as their fundamental origin.
Courtesy of Strada dei vini e dei sapori di Ferrara
www.aaanetserv.com /turismo/emilia/trail_ferrara.html   (282 words)

  
 SIPRO Agenzia per lo Sviluppo - Ferrara
SIPRO Agenzia per lo sviluppo - Ferrara is the agency promoting the local development of the Province of Ferrara.
SIPRO avails itself of economists, engineers specialized in designing industrial areas, start-up experts, professionals having a longstanding experience in the juridical-administrative area, local development and the design and management of European projects.
It is a modular structure set up thanks to EU funds to foster and support the growth of new enterprises.
www.siproferrara.com /eng/agenzia-sviluppo-ferrara.htm   (293 words)

  
 Camping Bungalow Village Florenz-Het Po Delta park-Comacchio-Lido Scacchi-Ferrara-Emilia
The course closest to Village Florenz campsite is at Argenta, midway between Ferrara and Ravenna, and just a few kilometers from Lidi di Comacchio.
It is one of the most important courses in the Ferrara area, with 18 holes.
There are water hazards on two thirds of the course, and six holes with typical links landscaping, featuring bunkers, brush and scattered trees.
www.campingflorenz.com /nederlands/golf-camping-florenz.htm   (295 words)

  
 Camping Ferrara Italy - Lido delle Nazioni - Camping TAHITI - Where we are
Camping Ferrara Italy - Lido delle Nazioni - Camping TAHITI - Where we are
The Camping Bungalow Park TAHITI is in Italy on the Adriatic coast of the region Emilia Romagna, 100 km in the south of Venice and 80 km in the north of Rimini.
It's in the province of Ferrara and in the township of Comacchio.
www.campingtahiti.com /cms_published_2/dovesiamo_EN.html   (113 words)

  
 Comacchio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Comacchio is a town of Emilia Romagna, Italy, in the province of Ferrara, 48 km by road from the town of Ferrara, in the centre of the lagoon of Valli di Comacchio, just north of the present mouth of the Reno.
But Emperor Rudolf I conferred it on Obizzo IV d'Este of Ferrara.
In 1508 it became Venetian, but in 1597 was claimed by Clement VIII as a vacant fief.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Comacchio   (343 words)

  
 Bed & Breakfast in FERRARA - ITALY - Charlie Chaplin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This page reports some of the most important events that take place during the year in Ferrara and in its province.
For further information please contact directly the associations/organisers or the Tourist Information Office of Ferrara: I.A.T. (Estense Castle, tel.
Among the itineraries in the province of Ferrara we suggest you the tour through the
www.charliechaplinbb.it /eng/events.html   (408 words)

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