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The Brenta is an Italian river that runs from the Trento province to the Adriatic Sea in the Veneto region. It is 174 km (108 miles) long. The Murray River in Australia. ... A view of Trento from Castello del Buonconsiglio. ... The Adriatic Sea Source: NASA The Adriatic Sea (Italian Mare Adriatico, German Adriatisches Meer or Adria, Croatian Jadransko more or Jadran) is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea separating the Apennine peninsula (Italy) from the Balkan peninsula, and the system of the Apennine Mountains from that of the Dinaric Alps... Veneto is one of the twenty regions of Italy. ... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer), symbol: km is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words χίλια (khilia) = thousand and μέτρο (metro) = count/measure). ... A mile is a unit of distance (or, in physics terminology, length) currently defined as 5,280 feet, 1,760 yards, or 63,360 inches. ...


Brenta is also a range of the Southern Limestone Alps. See Brenta Group. The most general definition of a mountain range is a group of mountains bordered by lowlands. ... The Southern Limestone Alps are the ranges of the Eastern Alps south of the Central Eastern Alps. ... The Brenta Group is a mountain range in the Italian Alps. ...


Both, river and mountains, are the original region where the ancestors of the Brentano Family came from who emigrated to Germany and produced a few famous writers and politicians there. There are some famous people named Brentano or von Brentano: Bernard von Brentano, novelist Clemens Brentano, poet and novelist, brother of Bettina von Arnim (b. ...


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Ville Venete della Riviera del Brenta, navigazione sul Burchiello (349 words)
gni anno, da marzo a ottobre, si effettuano delle piacevolissime escursioni e minicrociere in battello, in navigazione tra le Ville Venete della Riviera del Brenta.
Battelli del Brenta sono un gruppo di battelli e motonavi panoramiche, che navigano sulla Riviera del Brenta, da Padova in direzione di Venezia e viceversa, tra arte e storia, lungo le vie degli antichi burchielli veneziani del ‘700.
a navigazione viene effettuata dal gruppo "I Battelli del Brenta" con Motonavi da 100 a 200 posti o con battelli da 25 a 100 passeggeri.
ITALIA - Discover... Riviera del Brenta (466 words)
This was the ideal extension of Venice onto the mainland, almost a continuation of the lagoon city: between the 16th and 18th centuries the Brenta Riviera experienced a golden age which turned it into a privileged holiday resort for rich Venetian nobles.
The architecture of the villas is remarkable for the variety of styles which go from the 16th-century austerity to the unleashed fantasies of the 17th century, then on to the rational style of the 18th century.
Lying behind the Venetian lagoon and the "white fish" breading areas of the river deltas, Brenta gastronomy is the heir of a refined tradition which has succeeded in conjugating antique local recipes with a centuries-old experience of the nobles cuisine.
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