Example sentences for: ravenna

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

  • 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).

  • The mosaics of the dome and apse depict Christ Pantocrator with the Evangelists and Jesus blessing Peter and Paul; together with those of Ravenna, they are Italy’s finest.

  • Founded in the seventh century and reconstructed in 1008, it’s probably the finest of the Venetian-Byzantine churches, one of Europe’s finest outside of Ravenna.

  • 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.

  • To the east, the grand Byzantine citadel of Ravenna dominates the seaside resorts lining the Adriatic.


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