Comacchio

Comacchio is a city of 23 thousand¹ on islets just north of the mouth of the Reno River in Ferrara Province, in the Emilia-Romagna (locally Emélia-Rumâgna) Region of Italia.² UNESCO honors the area that includes the city (along with Ferrara) for the Renaissance transformations wrought on the delta that were sponsored by the Este family.³

External references

canals near Comacchio, Ferrara Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italia

Footnotes

1. 2009 figure from the side bar of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comacchio, accessed February 16, 2017.
2. Italy in English.
3. See the 2008 map under the document tab of http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/733/documents/, accessed January 30, 2018. It shows the heart of the commune (though not its beach frazioni) as being within the protected area. See also the text under the description tab on the same site.