Emilia Romagna

A region of northern Italy which takes it's name from the Via Emilia, the Roman road built by the Consul Marco Emilio Lepido which links Rimini and Piacenza while the term Romagna was only added in 1947. It is composed of the northern side of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, which are not very high apart from Mount Cimone, 2.165 metres, and the fertile Po Valley Basin with it's numerous rivers, the most important of which is the Po.