【4K】𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐊 ➜ Ravenna, Italy 2024

Ravenna is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, located 10 km from the Adriatic Sea, with which it is connected by a canal. After 402 - the capital of the Western Roman Empire, later the capital of the kingdom of Odoacer, the state of the Ostrogoths, the Exarchate of Ravenna and the Lombard Kingdom. Eight Ravenna monuments from Late Antiquity are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Ravenna is located on the Padan Plain in a low-lying area formed by the siltation of the Adriatic. The administrative center of the province of the same name.

Saint Apollinaris is considered the patron saint of the city.

In the summer of 1321, Dante Alighieri, as the ambassador of the ruler of Ravenna, went to Venice to make peace with the Republic of St. Mark. On the way back, Dante fell ill with malaria and died in Ravenna on the night of September 13-14, 1321.

Dante was buried in Ravenna. The magnificent mausoleum that Guido da Polenta prepared for him was not erected; the modern tomb (also called a "mausoleum") was built in 1780.

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