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Along the course of the river Reno
... 53 km route
Departure from Casalborsetti heading inland across the Romea state road towards Mandriole. Along via Mandriole, we come across one of the rare wood ovens dated 1933 for baking bread and biscuits. Driving along the Canale Destra Reno (canal on the right bank of the river Reno), we reach Sant'Alberto.
Here a stop should be made to admire, from the left bank of the river (crossing the river on the ferry, on foot or by bike), the endless Comacchio lagoons and especially the Boscoforte hummock.
The journey continues to Alfonsine and then Argenta, a place rich in history and natural beauty. The lagoons of the area can be reached by taking via Cardinala on the left as far as Campotto, where a stop can be made in the equipped stopover point, in the comfortable hostel or, after a few kilometres driving down the narrow road that leads to the Oasis, in a car-park surrounded by greenery.
Culture and nature
This route features natural and man-made environments and includes characteristic coastal pinewood forests and the wilderness of the mouth of the old Po di Primaro, now the river Reno, the Campotto Nature Reserve and the Marshes of Comacchio saltwater inlets with the Boscoforte peninsula, a natural oasis of rare beauty. |
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Steeped in history is the country farmhouse where Anita Garibaldi died at Mandriole, as well as the Hunting Lodge of the Estense family at Sant'Alberto (now home to the Ornithological Museum).
Alfonsine retains many local memories of the Second World War in which military facts and civil history intertwine in the Museum of the Senio Battle, a museum dedicated to the historic battle which took place on the river Senio. Argenta is an Ecomuseum with the Museo della Bonifica (Museum of the Reclamation), focusing on land reclamation, at Saiarino, near the beautiful San Giorgio Parish Church and the Museo delle Valli (Lagoon Museum) housed in the Casino di Campotto, near the Oasis. Here the freshwater lagoons are home to water-lilies, gentian and marsh reeds.
Food festivals
Water melon festival, first weekend of August at Filo di Argenta. During the first week of September at the Argenta Exhibition Centre, Biologico and Verdissimamente.
At Sant'Alberto the Settembre Santalbertese with its Potato festival.
Markets
Sant'Alberto Thursday
Alfonsine Monday
Argenta Thursday |
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