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It is a city of
very ancient origins - older than Venice, Ravenna, Ferrara and Rovigo. In the
sixth century B.C. it was such a strategically important center and an
essential crossroads for the river-trade with Northern Italy and Europe as
well, that the Greeks gave the adjacent see the name "Adriatic".
Later, in the fifth and fourth century B.C., the Etruscans made it even more
famous, until the second century B.C., when the Romans, mad a Municipium of it,
with all the relating privileges over the sorrounding territory. Nothing
remains of its old prospering port, because the continous overflowing of the
Po and the Adige have destroyed it and buried it under their mud. In the Town
Museum of Adria, there are thousands of finds of its millenary history -
discovered during the various excavations carried out in the area - and among
them the famous "biga of the Lucomone" of the fourth century B.C.
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