Ravenna

Ravenna is a massive fortress city in northern Italy inside the Roman Empire. Ravenna was turned into a fortress following the Fall of France and has become ringed by four strings of walls and is the site of an entire Legion along with another Legion nearbye.

The origins of Ravenna are uncertain, but the first settlement is variously attributed to (and then has seen the co presence of) the Thessalians, the Etruscans and the Umbrians, afterwards its territory was settled also by the Senones, especially the southern countryside of the city (that wasn't part of the lagoon), the Ager Decimanus. Ravenna consisted of houses built on piles on a series of small islands in a marshy lagoon – a situation similar to Venice several centuries later. The Romans ignored it during their conquest of the Po River Delta, but later accepted it into the Roman Republic as a federated town and it would become the capital of the northwestern region of Italy.