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.
Villa Badoer in Fratta Polesine: Palladio outside, the Bronze Age inside.
Read the storyIn Lusia, the Capitale degli Orti (Capital of Market Gardens), the sandy fields left by the Adige.
Read the storyLendinara, the town of Alberto Mario and Jessie White.
Read the storyBadia Polesine: the Teatro Sociale and the Balzan Collection.
Read the storyThree thousand years ago, elephant ivory and ostrich eggs were being worked in the Polesine
In the Bronze Age a village at Fratta Polesine worked glass, amber, ivory and ostrich eggs. How did they get there? Villa Badoer tells the story.
A breach in the river buried the fields in sand: from that came the «Capitale degli Orti»
A breach in the Adige buried the fields in sand and wheat would no longer grow. Lettuce took its place: the story of Insalata di Lusia PGI.
A patriot from Lendinara and an English journalist at the heart of the Risorgimento
In 1857 Alberto Mario of Lendinara met the Englishwoman Jessie White in a Genoa prison. Married within months, together they followed Garibaldi.
