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The Adige is the second-longest river in Italy, after the Po. It rises near the Reschen Pass in the Vinschgau in the province of South Tyrol, near the Italian border with Austria and Switzerland, and flows through most of northeastern Italy to the Adriatic Sea.
The name of the river is of unknown origin. Nineteenth-century theories, such as a derivation from the Proto-Celtic 'the water', and alleged to be cognate with the River Tees in England (anciently Athesis, Teesa), have never been accepted by Celtic onomasts and are now completely obsolete.
The Adige runs eastward through the Vinschgau to Merano, where it is met by the Passer river from the north. The section between Merano and Bolzano is called Etschtal, meaning Adige Valley. South of Bolzano, the river is joined by the Eisack and turns south through a valley which has always been one of the major routes through the Alps, connecting the Reschen Pass and the Brenner Pass passes, at considered the easiest of the main Alpine passes.
The Chiusa di Salorno narrows at Salorno and marks the southernmost part of the predominantly German-speaking province of South Tyrol. The Adige was mentioned in the "Deutschlandlied" of 1841 as the southern border of the German Sprachraum. As of 2011 62% of Salorno speaks Italian and 37% speaks German. In 1922 Germany adopted the song as its national anthem, although by that time Italy had taken control of all of the Adige.
Near Trento, the Avisio, Noce, and Fersina rivers join. The Adige crosses Trentino and later Veneto, flowing past the town of Rovereto, the Lagarina Valley, the cities of Verona and Rovigo and the north-eastern part of the Po Plain into the Adriatic Sea. The Adige and the Po run parallel in the river delta without properly joining.
The Adige is connected to Lake Garda by the Mori–Torbole tunnel, an artificial underground canal built for flood prevention.
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File:Sorgente Adige vera.jpg|The true source of the Adige inside a bunker of the Alpine Wall File:Sorgente Adige falsa.JPG|The false source File:Reschensee.jpg|Graun, the bell tower in the Reschensee File:Tussen Laas en Cavelano, die Etsch foto1 2012-08-12 15.57.jpg|The Adige between Laas and Göflan in the Vinschgau File:AdigeinVallagarina.jpg|The Adige flowing through Lagarina Valley File:Adige canyon.jpg|Adige canyon at Chiusa File:Adige Verona 2010.JPG|The Adige flowing through Verona File:Adige flowing through Verona.jpg|The Adige flowing through Verona, as seen from the Castelvecchio Bridge File:Verona_Adige.jpg|The Adige flowing through Verona File:VeronaPonteRomanoDaCastSanPietro.jpg|The Adige flowing through Verona seen from Castel San Pietro File:Verona01.jpg|Adige River and italic=no in Verona Foce dell'Adige a Rosolina Mare.jpg|The mouth of the Adige at Rosolina Mare
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