Guide of Rovigo, Italy

Rovigo Places And Charm, Italy

The Po Delta

The Po Delta has its own distinctive, extraodinary and unique character. Created by the slow sedimentation by the river, and by the meanderings of its branches, but mainly by the extraordinarly and skilled works of man over centuries of water management and reclamation of the swampy land; it has assumed the present pattern after banks bursting, memorable floods and huge embankment works.

The Delta plant life changes with the different areas and seasons: grasses and bindweed among the sand, followed further inland by silene, prickly asparagus, juniper, etc. An outstanding feature of the Delta is "valle" or lagoon fish hatchery: this is generally a broad, fairly shallow expanse of brackish water. The typical rural building in these marshlands is the "casone" featuring a tall chimney and derived from old buildings of wood and reeds. Besides the Casoni, which are of various sizes but always built to hte same basic features, there are other settlements from humble farm-houses to Veneto Villas and row of cottages with their square-topped chimneys. There is no shortage of roads, leading through extraordinary enchanting places whose names bear the echoes of a Venetian past, recalling the families who held the estates.