Where land and water meet, where the great River Po, having crossed the entire Po Valley, finds its final destination in the Adriatic Sea, lies the Delta landscape, one of Europe's most important areas of natural interest.
The Po Delta is an exceptional planned cultural landscape that has remarkably preserved its original form, with a variety of animal and plant species in a complex environment where nature reserves and human activities coexist.
UNESCO recognition highlights the uniqueness of this coexistence, and among lagoons, pine forests, and centuries-old woods, it is possible to reconstruct the important traces left by the Este government in the natural passage, which, while retaining its original form, has been transformed over time into a planned environment.
Today, this unique natural environment is protected by the Po Delta Regional Park, which covers 53,000 hectares between the provinces of Ferrara and Ravenna, areas considered among the most productive and rich in biodiversity.
Despite being one of the most anthropized and economically developed protected areas in the country, the Po Delta Park in Emilia Romagna preserves the largest area of protected wetlands in Italy. The Po Delta Park is a highly complex protected area, as it is simultaneously a terrestrial park, a river park, and a coastal park.
Thanks to the variety of environments, the park is home to over a thousand species of plants and hundreds of species of vertebrates and birds. Among the rarest species are the greater flamingo, the spoonbill, the pygmy cormorant, and others, while among the most common species is the black-winged stilt, which has been chosen as the symbol of the park.
