Example sentences for: ravenna

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  • 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.

  • Throughout Italy’s history, its northeast regions have linked the country to the exotic outside world of Byzantium and the Orient through Venice and its Repubblica Serena, and to the Alpine countries north of the Dolomites, while the plains of Emilia-Romagna from Ravenna to Parma provided an anchor to the heartland of the Po valley.

  • In the apse of the Greek-columned interior is a delightful mosaic of St. Apollinaris, Ravenna’s first martyr and bishop, surrounded by 12 sheep representing the Apostles, with Moses and Elijah in the clouds above him.

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  • For Florentine-born Dante, they have to be content with a cenotaph, as Ravenna, his burial place, refuses to part with his remains (he was exiled from Florence for political reasons).


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