A - Villa Badoer
Where great rivers run
A journey through Italy’s political history and through the Po Delta, a land ‘only’ 400 years in the making
A) VILLA BADOER detta LA BADOERA
Fratta Polesine RO
- Visits
- National Archeological Museum
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B) TENUTA CA' ZEN
Taglio di Po RO
- Apartment and rooms sleeping up to 22 (Agri-tourism)
- Visits
- Restaurant
- Meetings and events
- Horseback riding, birdwatching, bike touring
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Suggested things to do
- Visit Rovigo, site of the “Accademia dei Concordi” Academy of Sciences, Art and Letters, the Great Rivers Museum and Palazzo Roverella, which hosts important exhibitions.
- Explore the Porto Caleri coastal Botanical Garden, which preserves the unique environment of the Veneto coastal forest.
- Don’t miss the National Archeological Museum of Adria, the city that gave the Adriatic Sea its name.
- Discover the Delta Park on a bike or in a boat, spotting hundreds of water birds amid marshes, sand bars and bonelli (reedy brackish areas).
- Participate in the “whispered” seafood auction at the historic fish market in Porto Viro.
- See the mussel harvest in the Sacca di Scardovari at dawn.
- Taste, i peoci (mussels), sautéed, just-harvested from historic fishing shacks; cannaroli rice, musso (donkey) stew, grilled bisato (eel)...
- Make a pilgrimage to Fratta Polesine to visit the house where the first “carbonari” revolutionary society meeting of the Italian Risorgimento took place, and the home of Matteotti, victim of Fascism.
- Go to The Island of Albarella for a day of sport at the magnificent 18-hole ‘sea links’ golf course, or arrange a horseback ride amid the dikes and beaches, or a sport fishing outing on the Po River or the sea.
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