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Eight stops among churches, convents and archives, all on foot in the old town. Start at San Domenico, the church that shows the town only its side. Continue to the Duomo, seat of the canons’ chapter, and to the building where priests were trained after the Council of Trent. Finish at the Rotonda, the octagonal temple built around an image believed to be miraculous.
From the square of the Lion of St Mark to the castle towers, by way of the art palaces and the main street that covers a vanished canal. A walk through the heart of the city to discover what stood here before what you see today: the ghetto, the walls, the water.
Heading west into the heart of the Polesine. In Fratta, Palladio’s villa and the villa linked to the Carbonari banquet of 1818. Then the basilica of San Bellino, patron saint of the diocese, the villa at Canda, the Vangadizza abbey at Badia and, on the way back, the Pilastrello sanctuary in Lendinara.
From the town that gave the Adriatic its name to the lighthouse where the Po meets the sea. The crypt beneath the cathedral, the chariot tomb with its horses, the cut dug by Venice in 1604 to divert the river, the ancient settlement of San Basilio and the waters of the Sacca degli Scardovari lagoon.
The Po shaped the Polesine and flooded it more than once. This route follows the river: the Este castle at Arquà, the villa at Polesella, and on to Ficarolo, where a medieval breach changed the course of the Po. To read along the way: the stories of the 1951 flood.
Less than a kilometre in the historic centre, five stops and five centuries. You start from the castle towers and end at the Rotonda, passing the churchyard where the Dometto once stood, the square that remembers a Nile explorer and the church that housed the Inquisition.
From the reed huts of the lagoons to the pumping station that drained the Isola di Ariano, from the mussel farms of the Sacca to the sand island of Scano Boa. An itinerary to understand how the Delta came into being, and what it tastes like.
An inland itinerary from Fratta to Trecenta: the village that worked ivory three thousand years ago, the market gardens born of a breach in the Adige, the Risorgimento couple, the journalist who gave his name to an international prize and a whirlpool where, they say, sunken bells ring.
