The Floods
Due to the large amount of water passing through Polesine, many floods happened during the centuries. The main floods had been:
- 589 (Adige): the disaster mentioned above as the breach at Cucca, that changed the main course of the Adige;
- 950 (Adige): a breach opened at Pinzone, nowadays Badia Polesine, and the river diverted into the former course of the Tartaro;
- 1152 (Po): the disaster mentioned above as the breach at Ficarolo, that changed the main course of the Po;
- 1438 (Adige): again the main course of the river changed; it no more passed through Rovigo, and it has started flowing in the bed it has nowadays;
- 1882 (Adige): the territory between the Adige and the Canalbianco was flooded; 63,000 people left the country and emigrated to South America.
- 1951 (Po): two thirds of Polesine was flooded, compelling 150,000 people to evacuate the entire area.
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Famous quotes containing the word floods:
“And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell-and great was its fall!”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 7:26-27.
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“In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.”
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