The Senio is a river of
Romagna
Romagna ( rgn, Rumâgna) is an Italian historical region that approximately corresponds to the south-eastern portion of present-day Emilia-Romagna, North Italy. Traditionally, it is limited by the Apennines to the south-west, the Adriatic to ...
in
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...
, the final right-sided tributary of the river
Reno
Reno ( ) is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, along the Nevada-California border, about north from Lake Tahoe, known as "The Biggest Little City in the World". Known for its casino and tourism industry, Reno is the c ...
. The source of the river is in the
province of Florence in the
Appennino Tosco-Emiliano mountains. The river flows northeast into the
province of Ravenna
The province of Ravenna ( it, provincia di Ravenna; ) is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Ravenna. As of 2015, it has a population of 391,997 inhabitants over an area of , giving it a population density ...
and flows near
Casola Valsenio,
Riolo Terme
Riolo Terme ( rgn, Riô or ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Ravenna in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about southeast of Bologna and about southwest of Ravenna. The main attraction of the town are the termal baths ...
,
Castel Bolognese,
Cotignola
Cotignola ( rgn, Cudgnôla) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Ravenna in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about southeast of Bologna and about west of Ravenna.
Cotignola was the birthplace of the 15th century condotti ...
,
Lugo
Lugo (, ; la, Lucus Augusti) is a city in northwestern Spain in the autonomous community of Galicia. It is the capital of the province of Lugo. The municipality had a population of 98,025 in 2018, making it the fourth most populous city in Gal ...
,
Bagnacavallo,
Fusignano and
Alfonsine before entering the Reno.
The river has a tributary called the Sintria that flows into it east of Riolo Terme. The river is along the road to
Imola.
The mean discharge at its mouth is about ; however this can vary from a minimum of to a maximum of .
World War Two
The area was the site of several hard-fought battles in the
Spring of 1945, during the last phases of
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...
in Europe. The Allied crossing of the River Senio was one of the last hurdles that needed to be overcome in order to capture the great
Po Valley
The Po Valley, Po Plain, Plain of the Po, or Padan Plain ( it, Pianura Padana , or ''Val Padana'') is a major geographical feature of Northern Italy. It extends approximately in an east-west direction, with an area of including its Venetic e ...
basin and so complete the
campaign in Italy. The German defenders were mostly elite parachute units and, in the very last days of war in Europe, the
British 8th Army took many casualties in effecting this defended river-crossing operation.
It was also one of the landmarks of the
Jewish Brigade
The Jewish Infantry Brigade Group, more commonly known as the Jewish Brigade Group or Jewish Brigade, was a military formation of the British Army in the Second World War. It was formed in late 1944 and was recruited among Yishuv Jews from Manda ...
in the war.
In a speech to the British Parliament concerning the Jewish Brigade's foiudation on 3 July 1944,
Winston Churchill pointed out that the
Liberation Day would have come exactly 20 years after the
British Mandate-Palestine established in 1920 during the
San Remo conference.
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Rivers of the Province of Florence
Rivers of the Province of Ravenna
Rivers of Italy
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