Rovigo Hotels

Rovigo is a town in the Veneto region of North-Eastern Italy, the capital of the eponymous province. It should not be confused with the town of Bougara in Algeria which previously, under French rule, was called Rovigo. Rovigo appears to be first mentioned in a document from Ravenna dating April 24, 838; the origin of the name is uncertain. In 920 it was selected as his temporary residence by the bishop of Adria, Paolo Cattaneo, on the destruction of his city by the Hungarian ravagers; the fortifications started by him were already finished in 945. The viscounts of Rovigo built a line of brick walls in the 1130s in the name of the House of . The current Torre Doną is a remnant of the castle built some time in between; it is 66 m high and it may have been the highest brick tower at that time if the date of construction is correct.