Portico e San Benedetto

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official_name = Comune di Portico e San Benedetto
name = Portico e San Benedetto
region = Emilia-Romagna
province = Province of Forlì-Cesena (FC)
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area_total_km2 = 60.8
population_as_of = Dec. 2004
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telephone = 0543
postalcode = 47010
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website = [http://www.comune.portico-e-san-benedetto.fc.it/ www.comune.portico-e-san-benedetto.fc.it/]
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Portico e San Benedetto (Romagnolo dialect: "Pôrtic e San Bandet") is a "comune" (municipality) in the Province of Forlì-Cesena in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 60 km southeast of Bologna.

It is formed by three main distinct settlements:
*Portico di Romagna, 36 km from Forlì.
*San Benedetto in Alpe, 48 km from Forlì.
*Bocconi, midway the two former localities.

Main sights

In Portico di Romagna:
*"Palazzo Portinari", which belonged to Folco Portinari's family, father of the Beatrice Portinari described by Dante Alighieri.
*"Palazzo Traversari". Here was born the theologian Ambrogio Traversari.
*"Ponte della Maestà" ("Majesty Bridge", 17th-18th centuries)

At San Benedetto in Alpe is the Acquacheta water fall, also described by Dante.

Demographic evolution

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External links

* [http://www.comune.portico-e-san-benedetto.fc.it/ www.comune.portico-e-san-benedetto.fc.it/]