Ravenna is the largest and historically most important city in Romagna and the twenty-fifth largest city in Italy; its municipal territory is the second in Italy by area, surpassed only by that of Rome, and includes nine shores of the Romagna Riviera.
Ravenna, in its history, has been the capital three times: of the Western Roman Empire (402-476), of the Kingdom of the Ostrogoths (493-553) and of the Byzantine Exarchate (568-751).
For the vestiges of this luminous past, the complex of the first Christian monuments of Ravenna has been included, since 1996, in the list of Italian World Heritage Sites by UNESCO, as a serial site "Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna".
In the second half of the twentieth century the city experienced a period of great expansion. The demographic growth was accompanied by a series of architectural projects that are concentrated in particular around the Candiano canal, which connects the city to the Adriatic Sea.
The city dock and the ancient port areas are at the center of the urban revolution that the city will experience in the first decades of the 21st century with the creation of green areas, avenues, commercial areas, the nautical center and the Technopole for energy.
Ravenna
Address: Piazza del Popolo, 1, 48121
Phone: 0544 482111
Site:
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