Example sentences for: apennines

How can you use “apennines” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Florence lies at the heart of the northern Apennines, in a basin of the Arno river which runs out to Pisa and the sea.

  • The two regions were united at the time of the 19th-century Risorgimento, with Emilia following the Apennines from Bologna to Piacenza, while Romagna covers the eastern area of Ravenna and the Adriatic resorts around Rimini down to Cattolica.

  • Nurtured within the geographical separations of the Alps, the Po valley, and the coasts on either side of the Apennines, it was this very diversity that created the richness of Italian art and its competing regional schools of painting and architecture.

  • The green and fertile region round Naples, between the Tyrrhenian coast and the western slopes of the Apennines, was colonized by the Etruscans and Greeks.

  • Below the three great lakes, Maggiore, Como, and Garda, the fertile plain of the Po river separates the Alps from the rugged chain of the Apennines, running like a wall down the middle of the peninsula to the arid south.


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