Santerno
Location of Santerno
The Santerno is a Romagna river with 103 km length of its first 27 km, however, in the municipality of Firenzuola (Province of Florence), that travels in the Tuscan Romagna.
Geography
The Santerno rises near the Futapasses at 1222 meters altitude in the Apennines in a natural amphitheater located in the center of Firenzuola. He is both measured by its length and by its water supply from the largest tributary of the Reno. Its catchment area exceeds 700 km ², alone in the upper reaches to the bridge of the Via Emilia, Imola, it covers 423 km ² of which 231 are in Tuscany and 192 in the Romagna. In Castel del Rio, the river runs through the 1499 through Obizzo Alidosi commissioned Ponte Alidosi, which was realized by Andrea Gurrieri. It was restored several times and in 1897 the National Monument ( Monumento Nazionale ) is explained.
History
The Romans knew him as Vatrenus (small Reno ), but in the Peutingerkarte he 's saying Santernus. Since then, he both naturally and due to artificial interventions changed its course. The existence of a hamlet of Ravenna called Santerno, which is today, however, near the River Lamone, confirmed that it flowed in ancient times east of Bagnacavallo. After Imola, the river divided into two branches, the north-east direction Ravenna disappeared probably in the eighth century, while the northern flows on the Po. The Santerno posed a constant threat to the population; The dikes in the area of Massa Lombarda, for example, broke 1679-1778 14 times.