«La boje!»: the Polesine on strike, 1884
The farmhands' cry that shook the Po valley countryside
«La boje, e de boto la va de fora»: in 1884 the cry of Polesine farmhands named one of Italy's first peasant movements.
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Knowledge, crafts and rituals of a land of water
Mills that floated on rivers, reed huts in the lagoons, striking farmhands, pumping stations like cathedrals. The traditions of the Polesine almost always grow out of one relationship: the one with water.
Ca' Vendramin, the cathedral of steam that drained the Isola di Ariano
A sixty-metre chimney in the heart of the Delta tells how the land was made
Boilers, pumps and a 60-metre chimney: the Ca' Vendramin pumping station, now the Museum of Land Reclamation, tells how the Delta became land.
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Casoni and fishing valli, life on the water of the Delta
Embankments, sluices and lavorieri: the age-old art of raising fish between lagoon and river
Brackish basins closed by embankments, arrow-shaped fish traps and reed huts with cube chimneys: life in the fishing valli of the Po Delta.
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The floating mills, factories afloat on the Po and the Adige
Boats with a great wheel ground grain driven by the current: around Rovigo there were dozens
Two boats, a wheel, a little house with millstones: for centuries floating mills ground grain on the Po and the Adige. Where to find them today.
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The October Fair
Five centuries of horses, calves on boats and opera
Since 1482 Rovigo has celebrated in October. Once oxen, horses and calves on boats on the Adigetto; today funfairs and the Ottobre Rodigino.
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Fòle e filò
Witches, trials and tales in the winter stables
In winter stables people gathered for the filò and told fòle, folk tales. Long before, the witches of the Polesine had faced the courts.
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