The Lands of the Alto Ferrarese 3 Technical notes Circular route Ferrara - Depart: Ferrara, Piazza Savonarola Arrive: Ferrara, Piazza Savonarola

ra Length: 93,390 km www.ferrarainfo.com st ai M i Difficulty level: suitable for everyone. Level Ferrara: Castello Estense • tel. 0532 299303 d o route partly along cycle path (FE 101 Burana), Cento: Via , 41 • tel. 051 6843334 P partly along minor roads. Section on dirt track Connections with other routes along the Cavo Napoleonico, on the return to o Fi Santa Bianca. 2 Circular route Ferrara - - Destra Po Fiume P ume Po Serravalle o di Venezia Cologna Albersano P Railways Guarda Alberone Felonica Ferrarese Ponte Punzetti /Venezia Oasi Ariano Fiesso Mulino del Po Ferrarese Bicycle transport available. PleaseUmbertiano check timetables and availability. Info: 892021 • www.trenitalia.com Zerbinate Oasi Stellata Ro Bosco di Pilastri Santa Malcantone e Po Stienta Massenzatica Giustina um This circular route unwinds to the west of FerraraCanaro, the area known as the Alto Ferrarese, Contane Fi Zocca Coccanile Ponti Oasi Isola Oasi Spagna Bonello Oasi Bosco higher ground where the waters have been easier to control throughout history. the journey Monticelli Pineta di Pepoli Ravalle S. Giustina di Porporana Cesta Mesola Porporana reaches into the province of , crossing agricultural1 country dominated by fruit and Ambrogio S. Biagio Ruina Ponte S. Pietro Dune Fossili di Salvatonica Fossadalbero Mezzogoro Massenzatica Gavello Burana grain production, betweenOasi Isola the Panaro to the northPescara and the Reno to the south. Its artistic Bianca Sabbioni Camatte P Cento, Piazza del Guercino e Palazzo del Governatore Casaglia Santa Maria Zenzalino o d destination is the town of Cento with its own greatFrancolino houses, museums and castle. P i G Maddalena Italba o no Settepolesini c Ospitale Saletta d ca i o d G e Bosco o l Oasi Isola r l Diamantina o a BOLZANO·TRENTO·MANTOVA GORINO FERRARESE Torbiera Mesola 2 Bianca Corlo D o n Oasi Bacini z Bondeno Tamara Caprile e Correggio l Pontelagoscuro Zuccherificio Pontelangorino l Scortichino FE101 C Gradizza Oasi Valle a an Boara a 1 Brazzolo Dindona Viarovere Vigarano le B Oasi Goro Santa Pieve ura Barco Malborghetto Gran Bosco Ponte na Bianca di Boara Baura Fossalta Oasi della Mesola o o Rodoni Oasi Bacini ar c Sabb. Pontemaodino Boschetti n i Porotto Mizzana Sabb. a 5 S. Pietro Gherardi Zuccherificio Pomposa di Valle P n Cassana S. Vittore e o Viconovo Giralda Sacca di Goro m e Pontegradella e Contrapò Albarea Gorino l es iu ar Ferrarese Finale o Focomorto rr F Casumaro Fe Villanova Emilia Reno p Vigarano via Denore Oasi a ro Finalese Id Isola Tieni Oasi Canneviè N no Mainarda la Porticino i Vo Codrea Reno o Ferrara Po d Cocomaro P Mirabello o o Centese v di Focomorto di Volan Vaccolino Volano MODENA a Madonna Quartesana Val C Cocomaro Final Massa Alberone Boschi di Rero Roncodigà Cantone Valle 4 di Cona Nuova Oasi Faro S. Carlo Oasi Aguscello Rero Buonacompra Boscona Chiesuol Cona Migliaro Marozzo Valle di Gorino del Fosso Parasacco Bertuzzi Coronella Torre Ducentola Scannone di Goro Galeazza Pilastrello Fossa Bivio Id Fossanova ro Cornacervina Oasi Correggi v Valcesura San Marco Palmirano Borgo S. Anna ia Palata Molino Fossanova Ferra Sant’Agostino Gorgo Gualdo rese Dodici Albergati San Biagio Medelana Lago delle Oasi Bosco Morelli S. Martino Voghenza Masi S. Giacomo Rovereto Nazioni della Panfilia Chiesa Migliarino Nuova Gaibanella Alberlungo S. Egidio S. Vito Renazzo Fi Oasi um e Corte Centrale Bevilacqua Dosso R eno Poggio Dogato Campolungo Malpasso Renatico Montalbano Gaibana Gambulaga Libolla Corporeno Oasi Anse Vallive Galliera S. Venanzio di Monestirolo Runco Ostellato S. Giuseppe S. Bartolomeo S. Giovanni Volania di Gallo in Bosco Sandolo 1:200.000 Montesanto 5 km Marrara Maiero Cento Quartiere Comacchio Malalbergo BOLOGNA ARGENTA Oasi Anse di Spinazzino S. Nicolò Valle Lepri 42 43 Portorotta Portoverrara Ripapersico

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The first part of this route is the same as that of Cento - a little jewel of art, architecture, cui- the ‘Great Loop of Water’, Burana-Destra Po (see sine and commerce - has ancient roots but route n° 2, p.38). At Bondeno take the road they are not well documented . It was owned that runs alongside the Panaro and head for by the Bishop of Bologna in the 12th century, , leaving the then given to the Estensi by Pope Alessan- for a moment. From up on the embankment dro VI Borgia as part of his settlement for the we can see the Santa Bianca sluice and the marriage of his daughter Lucrezia to Alfonso water works of the same name, part of the d’Este. In the 17th & 18th centuries it saw years Burana land reclamation. Water is really the of great splendour thanks to the rebuilding dominant element of this route, although of the town, as well as a flourishing artistic the watercourses are contained behind high and cultural life, when the great painter Gio- artificial embankments. van Francesco Barbieri, known as ‘il Guer- cino”, was active. An old Cento tradition is its Carnevale, today Finale Emilia is an old waterfront town, an internationally known event. worth rediscovering. It is dominated by After visiting Cento, on the return leg we use the bulk of the 15th century Castello delle the minor roads with little traffic through Rocche, built by the same Bartolino da Sant’Agostino, Bosco della Panfilia Dosso and then Molino Albergati. Novara to whom we owe the Este Castle in Ferrara; it is one of the best preserved Turn towards Santa Bianca along the track Diversion to the Bosco della Panfilia in the region. that runs alongside the Cavo Napoleonico These woods at Sant’Agostino can be visited at any time of the year, but preferably and back to Bondeno, and then to Ferrara in autumn or spring. The entrance is beside the Cavo Napoleonico, and the wooded along the FE101 Burana cycle track. area extends along a riverside terrace of the Reno, which has determined the veg- From Finale Emilia cross the Panaro back into etation. The river takes a clear turn to the south-east here, and forms the southern Ferrarese territory, and after Alberone, Dodi- border of the Province of Ferrara. ci Morelli and Renazzo, we get to Cento.

Guercino and his studio, The Dinner at Emmaus, Cento, Municipal Gallery Santa Bianca, water works

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