ra st ai BOLZANO·TRENTO·MANTOVA VENEZIA M i d o ROVIGO·PADOVA Villanova P Marchesana Landscape of the great land reclamation Bosaro Guarda o Ro - Copparo - Ostellato Crespino P F Veneta Fiume ium Berra e P Serravalle o Polesella ia GORINO FERRARESE Albersano Po di Venez Guarda Alberone Cologna Ferrarese 1 Ponte Punzetti Oasi Ariano Mulino del Po Ferrarese Zerbinate Oasi Stellata Bosco di Pilastri Ro Santa Malcantone Massenzatica Giustina FERRARA Coccanile Contane Ponti Oasi Isola Zocca Oasi Spagna Bonello Pepoli Oasi Bosco Ravalle Monticelli MesolaPineta di S. Giustina di Porporana Cesta Mesola Sabbioni Ambrogio S. Biagio Porporana Salvatonica Ruina Ponte S. Pietro Dune Fossili di Fossadalbero Mezzogoro Massenzatica Gavello Burana Oasi Isola Pescara FE206 Camatte Bianca P Casaglia Zenzalino o d Francolino P i G Francolino Italba o no Settepolesini c Oasi Isola d ca Saletta i o Ospitale Copparo G d Bianca Jolanda e o l Corlo Bosco r l Diamantina o a di Savoia Torbiera Mesola D Bondeno o Scortichino Pontelagoscuro n z Tamara Caprile e Correggio l Oasi Bacini Pontelangorino l Santa Gradizza Oasi Valle a Boara Zuccherificio Brazzolo Dindona Bianca Vigarano Oasi Goro Ponte Pieve Barco Gran Bosco Malborghetto Baura FE211 Oasi S. Bianca Rodoni di Boara 5 Fossalta Pomposa della Mesola Cassana Sabb. Formignana Oasi Bacini Pontemaodino Boschetti Vigarano Sabb. Gherardi Zuccherificio Pomposa Mizzana S. Pietro S. Vittore di Valle oleonico Giralda Sacca di Goro p Mainarda Porotto Viconovo a Gorino MODENA e Contrapò Albarea Pontegradellarares Ferrarese Fer Casumaro N ovia FERRARA Villanova Denore Codigoro o r IdFocomorto Oasi v no POMPOSA Ro, Mulino sul Po a la Tresigallo Oasi Canneviè Vo Isola Tieni C di FerraraPo Porticino Codrea FinaleReno Centese Cocomaro Po o di Focomorto From Ro this route unfolds di Vo acrosslan littleVaccolino hamlets with churches,Volano minor roads and Emilia Madonna 6 Val Alberone Boschi Quartesana Final Massa Fiscaglia Mirabello Cocomaro di Rero Roncodigà Cantone Valle Lido di Volano Oasi di Cona watercourses marking out irregular portions of countryside;Nuova all a prelude to the Oasi Faro S. Carlo Boscona Aguscello Cona Rero Migliaro Valle Gorino Buonacompra Fossanova Masi Torello Parasacco Marozzo di Gorino Coronella Chiesuol San Marco landscape of the great Ferrara land reclamation. TheBertuzzi route then leaves the Destra del Fosso Scannone di Goro Torre Fossa Ducentola I Bivio d Cornacervina Dodici ro Po cycleway on the river embankment to run as far as Copparo and the banks of Pilastrello Oasi Borgo S. Anna Correggi via Valcesura Morelli Fossanova Palmirano Fe San Biagio Gorgo Gualdo rrarese Medelana Migliarino the Po di Volano, through to the nature reserves of the AnseLago Vallivedelle di Ostellato. Sant’Agostino S. Martino Oasi Bosco Voghenza Masi S. Giacomo Rovereto Nazioni della Panfilia Chiesa Gaibanella Alberlungo Nuova Lagosanto S. Egidio S. Vito Ro Renazzo Dosso Voghiera 7 TechnicalOasi notes Fium Corte Centrale e Re Campolungo Malpasso Lido delle Nazioni Bevilacqua no Dogato Ferrara Ostellato Poggio RenaticoMontalbano Gaibana Gambulaga Libolla Depart: Ro, percorso cicloturistico Destra Po Corporeno Oasi Anse Vallive Runco Ostellato Arrive: Ostellato, Piazza Repubblica S. Giuseppe di Ostellato S. Giovanni Volania S. 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Codifiumea ARGENTA Valle Zavelea r Lido di Spina o Oasi Salina di Consandolo Comacchio 58 Bando 59 Oasi Boccaleone Vene di TraghettoTraghetto Oasi 4 La Fiorana Valle Ussarola Bellocchio Mare Valli di 8 Oasi Valle Adriatico Fossa di Porto Comacchio Val Campotto Argenta Oasi Longastrino Valle Vacca Oasi Valli Filo di Argenta e S. Biagio Marmorta Oasi Bosco del Boscoforte Traversante Fiume R Anita Valle eno Campotto Santa BOLOGNA RAVENNA 7 Ro - Copparo - Ostellato Ro - Copparo - Ostellato 7 The point of departure here is the areas In the centre beside the river where the ‘Mulino sul Po’ of the Province is anchored. This is a faithful reconstruction of the mill boats which were on the river This route follows a circuit of the geo- hereabouts over a century ago, and has graphical centre of the Province of Fer- been placed in a very attractive natural rara, connecting the great river Po, the surroundings: the Mill isn’t just an open-air northern limit of the province, and the museum, but a living and productive reality Po di Volano, which was active from the where you can watch the milling and the th 6 century and was one of the main two preparation of bread in a tourist centre with branches of the river along with the Po moorings and a landscaped area by the river. di Primaro, but was slowly supplanted by We proceed on minor roads towards Ro, what is now the main stream. After the through Zocca where we turn onto the main th th 18 -19 centuries the Po di Volano had part of the limited traffic path (the FE206) really become little more than a canal. that leads to Copparo. Before the centre, Sabbioncello San Vittore, Villa della Mensa The discriminating cycle-tourist who the enchanting Romanesque Church of is interested in a more-than-superfi- San Venanzio welcomes the visitor; it is one From Copparo we reach Sabbioncello to the Este family. At one point it was sur- cial understanding of the region will of the oldest buildings in the province and San Vittore almost entirely on a restricted rounded by lagoons and then involved with cross these middle lands with inter- has frescoes of the Bolognese school from traffic route (the FE211), and there we start the land reclamation which dried out the est: though there are no particularly the mid 14th Century. The town of Copparo, alongside the Po di Volano which at this Valle del Mezzano. Today from that area all precious buildings but there are rural founded in the mediaeval era, grew up on point is part of the Ferrara waterway, passing that remains are the Anse Vallive, our des- workplaces, little old churches, and ur- Este hunting grounds which we can see by the Villa della Mensa. tination, which constitute a biotype fresh- ban areas which recount the era of land by the building of the Town Hall (Palazzo water wetland area unique in the region, reclamation with its waterworks and Comunale) on the ruins of an Este country After Migliarino, along minor roads and a especially for the quantity and variety of its countryside taken from lagoons. house. little unmetalled track, we get to Ostellato. animal life. Romanesque Church of San Venanzio The River Po The Ferrara waterway The Ferrara waterway (Idrovia Ferrarese) links the Po with the Adriatic Sea, it actu- ally leaves from Pontelagoscuro and ends at Porto Garibaldi; it is 70 km long and is made up of the Canale Boicelli (Pontela- goscuro - Ferrara), then a stretch of the natural course of the Po di Volano (Ferra- ra - Fiscaglia di Migliarino) and lastly the navigable canal from Migliarino to Porto Garibaldi that finishes in the Adriatic. Ostellato has very ancient origins, as evi- denced by numerous archaeological finds, For more about the Anse Vallive see the first documentation goes back to 997. route no. 8, From Ostellato to Argen- Ostellato belonged first to Comacchio, then ta, p. 62. to Pomposa Abbey, from which it was ceded 60 61.