The Po Delta Park
Raffaella Tommasi
Comacchio - ITALY
Geographical Setting
Adriatic Sea
PO DELTA PARK AREA
The Po Delta Park offers a significative variety of
natural environments and cultural attractions.
For example it’s possible to see:
Remains of the
primitive
mediterranean
wood
hygrophilus
woods
lagoons
Brackish and
fresh water
marshes
Saltpans and
riparial areas
of rivers and
canals
Rests of present
and ancient
dunal system
There are also important architectural sites
Mesola Castle
Pomposa Abbey
Cervia Salt Warehause
The Park has been included in the list during the session of the World Heritage
Committee held on December 2nd, 1999 in Marrakech, Morocco; the new site has been
called "Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta", since it is an extension of the
Este town site already present in the List since 1995.
In its justification for the inclusion, the Committee praises the extraordinary natural
ecosystem which was closely linked by man to the town between the 14th and the 16th
century.
Main human activities in the Park:
Agriculture (22.000 ha)
Aquaculture (19.000 ha)
Hunting
Tourism (650.000-700.000pax/year)
Master Plan
The Master Plan of the Coast of the Regional Po Delta Park
is a document elaborated by the Park with the contributions of the
Provinces of Ferrara and Ravenna, of the Emilia–Romagna
Regional Authority and the European Union.
It is a tool for the local management of a protected area,
and is driven by innovation and research.
What is included in MP cannot be imposed like a law, but on the
other hand is available to every Institution in order to realize a
pratical approach to sustainable development.
The missions of the project are: knowledge, regulation and
strategy.
Emilia-Romagna Region
Po Delta Park Area
Goro Lagoon
Comacchio Lagoon
Public and private propriety of “water”
Touristic
paths by
boats, foot,
bycicles and
bird watching
Touristic paths in
Valleys houses
sitors Centers
Palazzone di S. Alberto – S. Alberto (Ra)
Centro Visita Saline di Cervia
Visitors Centers
Centro di Educazione Ambientale di
Mesola
Manifattura dei Marinati
Casa Monti
Visitors Centers
Museo del carico della Nave Romana di Comacchio
Centro documentale della Bonifica
Presso l’antico impianto Idrovoro di Marozzo
Museo del Territorio
Visitors Centers
Museo delle Valli di Argenta
Museo della Bonifica Idrovora Saiarino
Cà Vecchia
Visitors Centers
Ecomuseo della civiltà palustre – Etnoparco
Villanova delle Capanne
Musa – Museo del sale, Magazzini del Sale “Torre”
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