The wilderness areas
Palude di Ostiglia
PALUDE DI OSTIGLIA NATURE RESERVE
The Palude di Ostiglia Nature Reserve represents a rare example of raised marshland, the last testimony to the huge Veronese Valleys, a vast marshland system – over 30,000 hectares – whose drainage began around 1850, but was not finished until the 1970s. READ MORE
Isola Boscone
ISOLA BOSCONE NATURE RESERVE
On the banks of the Po, behind the village of Carbonara, Isola Boscone contains the second largest spontaneous woodland area in the Province of Mantua, a particularly relevant element in a region such as Lombardy where just 3.5% of the plain area is wooded…
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PLIS San Colombano
SAN COLOMBANO PARK
San Colombano Park extends over an area of 730 hectares in the municipality of Suzzara, on the flood plains overlooking the villages of Riva and Tabellano. The area hosts enormous areas of recently created riparian woodland, poplar wood, plantations, spontaneous willow groves, sandy areas, wet areas corresponding to the old clay pits and “bugni” (characteristic bodies of water originating when an embankment breaks during high water)…
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PLIS Parco San Lorenzo
SAN LORENZO PARK
Set up in 1990, the San Lorenzo Park represents the first experience in the province of a Supra-municipal interest local Park, a type of wilderness area established “bottom-up” from the local population’s desire to create “a place to show off the history and nature of the Po Plain”…
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PLIS – Golene Foce Secchia
GOLENE FOCE SECCHIA PARK
The Golene Foce Secchia Park (a Supra-municipal interest local Park) encloses the final section of the Secchia river, from the border with Emilia until it meets the Po. Here, the Apennine tributary winds along between high embankments which delineate floodplains significantly smaller than those of the Great Po River…
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PLIS – Golene del Gruccione
GRUCCIONE PARK
Located near the town of Sermide, on the south-east edge of Lombardy, the park owes its name to a large colony of gruccioni (bee-eaters), birds with splendid plumage which have only started nesting regularly along the Po in recent years…
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SPA Viadana Portiolo San Benedetto e Ostiglia
SPECIAL PROTECTION AREA OF VIADANA, PORTIOLO, SAN BENEDETTO PO, OSTIGLIA
