{"id":40119,"date":"2019-12-13T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.travelemiliaromagna.it\/abbey-pomposa-emilia-romagna\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T20:52:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T19:52:43","slug":"abbey-pomposa-in-emilia-romagna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelemiliaromagna.it\/en\/abbey-pomposa-in-emilia-romagna\/","title":{"rendered":"The abbey of Pomposa between history and legend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the state highway Romea, which connects Ravenna and Mestre, all of a sudden – at the limits of the Po Delta Park, jumps into view the\u00a0Abbey of Pomposa<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This overwhelming presence, with its 48 m. of height, stands out in all its wealth over the surrounding plain and makes the area a captivating point of interest for anyone who ends up here.<\/p>\n

In this place shrouded in the typical fog blanket of the Po valley, starting from the 6th-7th century AD, small groups of Benedictine monks chose to create a little community.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was the beginning of the Middle Ages, and you should know that, in this period, the area was not so healthy or easily reachable and populous.<\/p>\n

The coastline was underdeveloped, the landscape consisted mostly of water and some submerged plots of land. Ferrara<\/a> <\/strong>did not exist yet, and only Comacchio<\/a> <\/strong>had a determining role as a marketplace.<\/p>\n

The swamps all around did not leave much space to human settlements, except for some areas such as the so-called \u2018Insula Pomposiana<\/em>\u2019, placed between two branches of the Po river and surrounded by thick wooded vegetation.<\/p>\n