Mark: The River Po, Turin.

The River Po flows 682 km (424 mi) eastward across northern Italy, from a spring seeping from a stony hillside at Pian del Re, a flat place at the head of the Val Po under the northwest face of Monviso (in the Cottian Alps) through a delta projecting into the Adriatic Sea near Venice.  The Po is the longest river in Italy; at its widest point its width is 503 m (1,650 ft).

Here's Pamela enjoying spare time by the river, and in her words, she found the Po to be "Beautiful, and very peaceful, and it was lovely to see so many people enjoying themselves: joggers, cyclists, rowers, romantic couples and students. I spent a great deal of time here during my visit."

[Boat from the university rowing club]

The river flows through many important Italian cities, including Turin (Torino), Piacenza and Ferrara. It is connected to Milan through a net of channels called navigli, which Leonardo da Vinci helped design.

Near the end of its course, it creates a wide delta (with hundreds of small channels and five main ones, called Po di Maestra, Po della Pila, Po delle Tolle, Po di Gnocca and Po di Goro) at the southern part of which is Comacchio, an area famous for eels. The Po valley was the territory of the Roman Cisalpine Gaul, divided in Cispadane Gaul (South of the Po) and Transpadane Gaul (North of the Po).