04 - The crossing of the Delta del Po

04 - The crossing of the Delta del Po

Gps Track

Gps Track

  • Start: Adria
  • Arrival: Gorino
  • Total Length: 58,3 km
  • Cycle type: Hybrid
  • Difficulty by Cycle: Medium

Things to see en route

The exploration of the Po Delta continues, this land whose history has always been tied to water, formed by seven branches, different environments which change and are modified from one season to another. It is a young and wild territory, an incalculable treasure trove of biodiversity, whose beauty attracts photographers and tourists and also poets and writers. Leaving Adria and its National Archaeological Museum you enter the so-called Ariano island. Pedalling along the right bank of the Po di Venezia you reach Taglio di Po where you go south in the direction of San Basilio. You must see the fossil dunes, the old medieval church and the surprising archaeological area with Roman finds. Start pedalling again following the flow of the river Po, go up along the Po di Goro embankment until the gates of the village Porto Viro – where at Ca’ Vendramin there is the Regional Reclamation Museum – then you head south along a B road to reach the bridge which leads to Emilia-Romagna. You are in the town of Mesola, dominated by the impressive sixteenth century castle, one of the nineteen Delizie Estensi (delights of the Este dynasty). Now you pedal along the well-known cycling path of the Destra Po, passing alongside both the Dindona Valley and a lovely bridge made out of boats on the left – you can reach the Gorino lighthouse of Ferrara, where the Po flows into the sea.

Description

From Adria you follow the right bank of the Canalbianco, which you then leave at Piantamelon to turn right towards Bottrighe. Go over the bridge which crosses the Po di Venezia going right into the Po Delta, precisely into the so-called Arian island, that vast territory which originated from floods contained within some branches of the Po di Goro to the south, the Po di Venezia to the north and the Po della Donzella to the south-east. You are in an area called Polesine and this area is subdivided among the towns of Ariano nel Polesine, Corbola and Taglio di Po. When you have crossed the bridge, turn left following the flow of the Po di Venezia and you go along the cycling path on top of the river bank, accompanied by Venetian villas and rural farmsteads which developed here. Then you go through the village of Taglio di Po, which gets its name from the hydraulic work carried out by the Venetian Republic, the work of “cutting” the Porto Viro began on May 15 1600 and was finished on September 16 1604. The route now expects you to cross Ariano island, passing by Grillara, interesting for its Museo dell’Ocarina and the fossil dunes. You reach San Basilio where – on top of a fossil dune, remains of a proto-historic era – there is a Romanesque church, founded in the X century by the Benedictine monks of Pomposa. From the embankment you reach Ca’ Vendramin, where there is the Museo Regionale della Bonifica, you continue until you get to the bridge made out of boats between Goro Veneto and Gorino Ferrarese, where there is the sixteenth century castle, one of the so-called Estensi Delights. A little further south there is the Bosco Mesola Nature Reserve. Now you ride along the cycling path on the right of the Po which leads to Goro and you continue to Lanterna Vecchia and the Gorino Ferrarese lighthouse, where the Po plunges into the Adriatic.

Conditions: easy route, on secondary roads and embankments mostly asphalted, some stretches with heavier traffic

Useful addresses

Pro Loco Tourist Office Adria

piazza Bocchi 1
T. +39 0426 21675
info@prolocoadria.it

IAT Tourist Office Rovigo
T. +39 0425 386 290
iat.rovigo@provincia.rovigo.it
www.polesineterratraduefiumi.it

Parco Regionale Veneto del Delta del Po
T. +39 0426 372202
info@parcodeltapo.org
www.parcodeltapo.org

 

Adriabike_Brochure_3_4_EN.pdf

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