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GEOGRAPHIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC INFOS Polesine is a geographic area corresponding perfecly with the entire Rovigo 's province, in the north-east of Italy , 40-km south of Padua (comprehensive of a number of around 220,000 inhabitants) and it's the last region you pass through by going southward from Venice, bordering with Emilia Romagna . It is placed between Adige and Po , the two biggest rivers in Italy (respectively 459 and 652 km of Total Length ). The eastern portion of Polesine corresponds to the Delta of river Po, and it is constantly expanding eastward because of the Detritus Sediment phenomenon. We can say Polesine has been created by sedimentary phenomenons. The biggest city is Rovigo (52,000 inhabitants), followed by Adria (20,000 people). Other important agricultural centres are Badia Polesine , Arquà Polesine , Porto Viro , Porto Tolle , Loreo , Polesella , Lendinara and Lusia . It borders North with Padua and Venice provinces, South with Ferrara and West with Mantova . In the East it borders with Adriatic Sea ( Mar Adriatico in Italian), and has some famous Holiday Village s, as Rosolina Mare , Rosa Pineta , Albarella Island (Isola di Albarella in Italian). The various towns and villages are connected by Transpolesana , a long Highway crossing nearly the entire Polesine area. A13 Toll Motorway passes through the zone, connecting Padua with Bologna . AGRICULTURE HIGHLIGHTS Polesine is a thriving place for Agriculture , in particular regarding the cultivation of Sugar Beet s (and consequently Sugar industry is very robust, and Eridania is very famous in the entire Italy for sugar production, even if it failed a few years ago) and Cereal s. THE 1951 FLOOD Polesine is not one of the luckiest place to live in. In fact Flood s are not rare and the risk is very high in the most rainy periods of the year. At least, the zone is one of the most peaceful as for Earthquake s and Tsunami s. A dramatic moment occurred in 1951 for Polesine inhabitants when river PO Overflow ed compelling 150,000 people to evacuate the entire area and the administration to squander several Investment s to redo all the banks, build Dikes and embank all the leaks. DELTA AND NATURE DELTA PARK The eastern portion corresponds with the delta of River Po, a large area where the river subdivides into smaller rivers (each with its own name). The delta is also a protected area, because it's a national-legally recognized nature park with its own Flora and Fauna . MYTHOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF POLESINE Polesine origins are connected mythologically with the Myth of Phaeton , the young god who died drowning with the Sun Chari ot in river Eridano (the elder name of river Po). In Crespino , a small village in Polesine, there's a square (the principal of the town) entitled to Phaeton, to remember the old legend and the oral tradition saying that Phaeton died in the tract of river Po crossing Crespino. GEOLOGICAL FORMATION OF THE AREA Actual Polesine territory is, geologically speaking, of recent Formation , created by Drift s taken by rivers Adige and Po, and subsequently from human modifications. In fact, men reclaimed and decontaminated the area before embanking the biggest waterways. First origins goes up to the Pliocene Epoch . Contemporary to the rising of Alps and Apennine Mountains , the entire Padania was filled by a long Inlet (the Adriatic Depression ) and the Seabed of this huge Ditch was full of Troughs and Elevation s. At the end of the last Glaciation (10.000 years ago), most of Padania actual territory was just formed. Landscape 's last mutation was dued to the raising of the sea level and the Ice Melting . In 1604, river Po's natural course was artificially modified and after this work actual delta was formed. Floods frequently happened in Polesine filled the depressions of the area with several bundles of sediments consisting in Sand , Clay and Silt . |
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