The Po Delta Park
The Po Delta Regional Park is a vast protected area that extends from the Po di Goro and includes many mouths of regional rivers such as the Reno, Lamone and Fiumi Uniti to the Adriatic Sea. The park, established in 1998, encompasses 18,000 hectares of Emilia-Romagna and contains extensive vegetation as well as a large number of animals and especially birds. Historical monuments such as the Pomposa Abbey and the Pieve di San Giorgio also stand out. It was included in the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1999.
The spectacle of nature is expressed above all in the extraordinary jigsaw puzzle that makes up the Po Delta Park, with its ecomuseums, ideal for ecological and educational tourism, but it is also enriched by all the naturalistic destinations that are sure to amaze.
The Delta Park, an ideal place for your holidays, a destination for tourists from all over the world. The park covers over 60,000 hectares and is the largest park in the Emilia Romagna region. Various natural environments can be found in the delta area: brackish or fresh wetlands, beaches, lagoons, lidos, salt marshes. From the Comacchio valleys to the Ferrara Lidos, the Ravenna Lidos, and the seaside areas of Cervia and Milano Marittima.
The Po Delta and its Park, a profound and evocative beauty through the shores of Ferrara, Ravenna and the Comacchio valleys. The Delta is like a triangle between three cities of art: Ravenna to the south, Venice to the north and Ferrara to the west.The Park has the largest extension of protected wetlands in Italy, areas of exceptional ecological value.
It is an area rich in natural environments that are home to hundreds of species of flora and fauna. The high number of species present is closely linked to the diversity of the habitats present, which express themselves with peculiar forms and adaptations in relation to the different chemical-physical conditions of the soil and climatic conditions.
The particular geomorphology of the area, although not expressed in obvious shapes except to the expert eye, has allowed the establishment of woods with deciduous and evergreen vegetation. Of the ancient Bosco Eliceo, mentioned in historical manuscripts, only a meagre trace remains on the ancient dunes of the Ferrara coastline. In the Ravenna area, the wood, of more recent times, is clothed in domestic and maritime pines: the pine forests.
Important elements of the Delta landscape are the valleys and wetlands.
Salt marshes originated as a result of flooding by sea water of depressed territories or as a result of man's transformation for productive purposes (fishing, salt pans).
Within the perimeter of the park lies one of the few vestiges in continental Europe of freshwater wetlands: the Argenta and Marmorta Valleys, which escaped land reclamation thanks to their fundamental hydraulic function as “expansion reservoirs”.
Info: www.parcodeltapo.it
