Adige in a sentence

The food is "really interesting and wonderful, from Piemonte and Lombardy, from Trentino-Alto Adige," he says.

The Loro Piana Adige Sleeping Bag is the Rolls-Royce of outdoor gear, padded with their signature Cashmere H.O.C. wadding and wrapped in Wind Storm System microfiber to keep you warm in the kind of places most people avoid entirely.

It is produced in the Trentino-Alto Adige region in the extreme northeastern foothills of the Alps – so extreme that the locals still speak German, a testament to the fact that until 1919, this area was part of Germany.

At my table, a pale pool of Gruyère and Emmentaler arrived and soon simmered in a yellow pot over Sterno’s steady blue flame; a generous plate of cubed bread, fingerling potatoes, speck (smoked ham from the Alto Adige), and cornichons came alongside.

Economy The city owes much of its unique economy to its position along the main communication route between Italy and Northern Europe and to the Adige river which prior to its diversion in the mid-19th century ran through the center of the city.

However, feigning attacks along the Adige, Eugene descended south across the river Po in mid-July, outmanoeuvring the French commander and gaining a favourable position from which he could at last move west towards Piedmont and relieve Savoy's capital.

Italy The Italian Constitution defines three levels of local government: * Regions : At present 5 of them (Valle d'Aosta, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino-Alto Adige, Sardinia and Sicily) have a special status and are given more power than the others.

Of these, only the Belt (strait) and the Neman once were actual boundaries of Germany (the Belt until 1920, the Neman until 1945), whereas the Meuse and Adige were not.

Parts of the city were hit by the Allied bombings, including the church of S. Maria Maggiore, the Church of the Annunciation and several bridges over the Adige river.

River Adige is one of the three main south-flowing Alpine rivers; its broadly curving course alongside Trento was straightened in 1850.

They form a part of the Southern Limestone Alps and extend from the River Adige in the west to the Piave Valley ( Pieve di Cadore ) in the east.

Via Augusta was completed in 46–47 AD; the route took its course along the Adige valley to the neighbouring Reschen Pass (west of Brenner Pass at above 2,100 metres), then descended into the Inn valley before rising to Fern Pass towards Augsburg.