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Each of the five areas has a principal city as a focus or starting point: Rome for central Italy, plus Sardinia; Florence for Tuscany, with Umbria, and the Adriatic seaside resorts to the east; Venice for Veneto, the Dolomites, and Emilia’s historic towns from Parma to Ravenna; Milan for Lombardy, Piedmont, and the Italian Riviera to the west; and Naples for the south and Sicily.
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.
The divisions resulted in Veneto (Venice and its hinterland), Emilia (between Ravenna and Modena), and Pentapolo (between Rimini and Perugia), plus Rome and Naples (with Sicily and Calabria).
The 27 b.c. triumphal arch (Arco d’Augusto), anachronistically ornamented with medieval battlements, stands at the junction of the imperial highways from ancient Rome: Via Flaminia and Via Emilia (which gave the region its name).
A year later, Cavour negotiated the handover of Emilia and Tuscany.