Archaeology
Lifetimes of Pomposa
Pomposa Abbey, which can be seen today when travelling along the busy SS Romea coast road, is all that remains of an ancient and more complex abbey complex that was perhaps built as early as the 7th century AD on…
Landscape stories
The landscape has good memory and narrates itself. Interpreters of this tales: land reclamation, river floods and the breaking of banks, marshy expanses of water, hydraulic constructions to regulate and channel river water, land that advances or retreats.Today, the Codigo…
How much water has passed under the bridge?
The landscape that characterises the Po Delta today is profoundly different from the one that presented itself to travellers in past centuries and is the result of the uninterrupted activity of the Po River in the Po Valley and the…
Of all colours
Pomposa and its surroundings are a gallery of endless colour nuances: the grass, the plants, the crops, the animals, the carved stone, the bricks, the frescoes, the mosaics...Here is a sample by colour gradation. Last five orders of the bell…