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review between the main architectonic works presents in the Delta
of the Po. For a wider collection, we invite to you to consult our
Catalogue "Benvenuti nel Delta del
Po". |
The Abbey Of Pomposa |
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The
Pomposa abbey, composed from church, bell tower, Convent, and Palace
of the Reason, does not represent other that a part of a monastery
that was in the great and powerful Middle Ages, point of reference
of history and culture, center of spiritualità between the more important.
The historians make to go back the origin of the takeover of the Benedictines
monks to Pomposa to VI - VII sec. The first half of the XI sec. marks
the period of maximum splendor of the monastery, attended from illustrious
personages of the history of the time. Center millenarian of history
and culture, the Abbey of continuous Pomposa to being goal of thousand
of visitors. |
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The Abate-Tower Drain |
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This
building is the more interesting testimony of the history of the local
reclamations. The hydraulic drain was built up around to 1580 in the
picture of the plan of the “Great Enterprise of undertaken Reclamation”
from the Extensive ones. Through a system of doors he regulated the
outflow to sea of inner waters. Exausted already at the beginnig of
the '600 the function of hydraulic sluice, the building came used
like guard tower. Today it is restored and opened the public. Characteristic
it is the small lake of approximately 10 hectares that encircle it.
The tower is placed between to Mesola and Bosco Mesola. |
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The Castle of Mesola |
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The
architectonic complex of the Castle of Mesola came built up around
to 1578 for wanting of Alfonso II of Este. They are the last years
of splendor of the ferrarese ducato one; to the dead of Alfonso II,
for lack of males heir, the patrimony comes devolven to the Papal
State. The Castle is “the last intentional delight” from the duca
in honor of its bride Margherita Gonzaga, in order to accommodate
the Court, than it would have been dedicated here to pleasant amusements
and imposing huntings and peaches in the surrounding forest and on
the shoreline. The Castle is today center of the C.E.A. (center of
environmental education of the Po Delta). |
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