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Euganean Hills


The Euganean Hills are a group of volcanic reliefs characterized by extremely heterogeneous shapes and heights, which rises, almost isolated, on the central Venetian plain, southwest of Padua occupying an area with an approximately elliptical perimeter of almost 22,000 hectares. The territory is protected Euganean Hills Regional Park which, established in 1989, became the first regional park in Veneto.

The toponym "Euganean hills" was coined in quite late times (between the two and sixteenth centuries) taking inspiration from the Latin adjective Euganeus which, if originally referred to the Euganei, an ancient population who occupied the area before the arrival of the Venetians, later it was used as a learned term with the meaning of "Paduan".

The Euganean Hills are made up of about a hundred volcanic elevations created in two distinct phases as a result of the tensions that were also responsible for raising the earth's crust by gradually raising the Alpine chain. Born following submarine eruptions with outpourings of basaltic lava during the Upper Eocene, which was followed in the Oligocene by an activity characterized by viscous magmas, which led to the formation of trachyte deposits. These phenomena occurred around 30 million years ago.


 



Euganean Hills
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