The territory of Mesola is located in the north- east of Ferrara, immediately in the south of the Po of Goro. The suppositions of the derivations of the name of Mesola are various, but the most reliable seems that one of "media insula", |
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that is an island which is in a central position compared with the two medieval branches of the Po of Ariano: the branch of Goro and that one of Abate. |