The law that established the Veneto Regional Park of the Po Delta Administration (L.R.36, 1997) entrusts the Administration with a leading role, crucial for the economical and social development of the Delta, and for the protection, conservation and evaluation of its cultural, environmental and naturalistic patrimony.
The museum represents a reference point to know the past life; it is the place of memories, where testimonies and valuable finds are kept, evaluated and made enjoyable. Nevertheless, the museum cannot be separated from its background. On the contrary, it must get in touch with the other cultural institutions and with the historic, artistic, monumental and environmental patrimony that the territory treasures, as if it were a large spread museum.
Polesine, that is the province of Rovigo, is the land of the two long Italian rivers. It has a unique landscape, as, for example the amphibious sceneries of the Po Delta.
The Cultural Heritage Department of the Province of Rovigo has promoted a series of activities due to the pressing need to spread, evaluate and promote the museums in Polesine. Such actions involve all the competent people and parties of the area, such as the Veneto Archaeological Objects Department, Local Institutions and owners of museums, the Veneto Regional Park of the Po Delta Administration. They work in synergy to guarantee a large and spread enjoyment of the patrimony characterizing the Po Delta.
The Park Administration promotes a comprehensive and transversal activity of evaluation, as provided for in the Regional Law 8 September 1997 n. 36 (BUR n. 74/1997). In the first two articles it legitimizes and promotes:
1.the natural environmental, historical and cultural patrimony of the area of the Po Delta in the province of Rovigo, as a resource for the economic, social and cultural growth of the local Community;
2.the promotion and preservation of the local community’s cultural, social, economical activities as an essential and inalienable condition for the preservation and evaluation of the natural, environmental, historical and cultural resources characterizing the Po Delta in the province of Rovigo.
The Po Delta Authority is a public law institution with legal status, established by the Regional Law 8 September 1997 n. 36 (BUR n. 74/1997) that manages the park.
Its organs are: the Council, the Executive Committee, the President, the Director, the Park Community, the Board of Auditors.
The institution deals with various activities such as the environment management of the area, the eco-sustainable and eco-compatible use of the park, the evaluation of peculiarities and economical, cultural, historic values, the promotion and conservation of the economical, recreational, social and cultural activities of the local community.
The cooperation with other local, Italian and European administrations has the aim of involving administrations and organizations of the region, such as: the Region, the Province, the Veneto Archaeological Objects Department, the Archaeological National Museum of Adria, and highly esteemed national or local institutions
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The Archaeological Naturalistic Park in the Po Delta.
The historic-archaeological patrimony present in the Veneto Regional Park of the Po Delta consists of settlements of the proto-historic ages.
The town of Adria, seat of a National Archaeological Museum plays the important role of centre of culture.
The excavations and finds in Adria are a lot.
Among them there are: an ancient built-up area (remains of pile-dwellings, wooden planking, Attic pieces of pottery and other Etruscan objects), some pre-Roman necropolises (the excavation of more than 400 sepulchres of the pre-Roman and Roman age took place in 1938 and 1940; they enabled to find burial objects, many of them exhibited in the museum, Greek-Italic amphorae, crockery, household goods and finery), a Roman built-up area, a Roman necropolis (the stonetombs of which have been found) and a milestone of Popillia Way that connected San Basilio and Adria crossing the area that now belongs to the town of Corbola
An Etruscan seaward outpost was found about 15 km away from Adria at the beginning of the last century. In fact, Etruscan burial articles and Roman objects were found in the borough of Ca’ Zen in Taglio di Po. The span of time of the objects of Ca’ Zen goes from VI cen. B.C. and I cen: A.D.
Corte Cavanella (a borough of Loreo) and San Basilio (a borough of Ariano nel Polesine) are very interesting centres, both marked on the Tabula Peutingeriana (IV cen. A.D.) as rest stations on the coastal Popillia Way. They were called Mansio Fossis and Mansio Hadriani.. They had a strategic position on the consular way lying in the immediate inland within the cordon of dunes of proto-historic age.
The two mansiones have some characteristics in common as, for example, the presence of a kiln in both the sites, evidenced by a drying unit in San Basilio and fictile materials (made of the local typical grey clay) in Cavanella.
At the same time, the two sites are different in the kind of economy they have developed because of their different geographical and geological position.
The geosites representing the line of fossil duny cordons of Porto Viro and Rosolina are very important for a complete and correct understanding of the area of the Po Delta.
The geomorphologic study of these fossils is a valid help to understand the landscape evolution, the climate that has produced it and the reasons that caused the choice of seaward settlements since the Etruscan age (V cen. B.C.). The towns of Southern Polesine rose on those seaward settlements.
In this context we had the idea of an Archaeological Park as an organic and coordinated System of targets, resources and operational strategies.
The targets of the towns of Adria, Ariano nel Polesine, Corbola, Taglio di Po, Porto Viro and Rosolina are the same: the evaluation of the neighbouring sites (while creating a pole of tourist attraction involving – indirectly – the other towns of the Po Delta), by emphasizing both their peculiarities and their correspondences, by producing gravitation around the big cultural pole of the National Archaeological Museum of Adria, by promoting and coordinating them as a resource for a cultural niche for tourists.
As we said above, the “system” deals essentially with:
three sites: the areas of Adria, San Basilio and Cavanella around which there are the archaeological discoveries known up to now;
a cross axis: the fossil duny cordon crossing the whole Delta area from north to south. It consists of the towns of Rosolina, Porto Viro (the acquisition of some dunes is in progress) and Ariano.
We suggest to enjoy the sites and the archaeological and naturalistic routes with the help of cultural mediators or guides. With the coordination of the Park of the Po Delta Administration they propose routes and eco-sustainable goals, for a tourism respectful of the environment and of its frail peculiarities.
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