TAGLIO DI PO

This town only has a modern history. In ancient times, there was a dune barrier on the sea that stretched approximately to where the tiny hamlet of Mazzorno Destro, which has been inhabited since 1530, is today.

The remaining territory was formed after the Taglio di Porto Viro, the hydraulic project carried out by the Venetian Republic between 1600 and 1604.

The first settlements in the modern town centre occurred around 1750. Until the Napoleonic invasion of 1796 it was part of the Venetian Republic.

It became part of the Ariano district and suffered the same historical vicissitudes as the neighbouring municipality of Ariano nel Polesine until the third war of independence in 1866.

Worth Visiting

  • The Veneto Regional Museum of Land Reclamation built in the former Cà Vendramin water-pumping plant, decommissioned in the late 1960s

  • The Belltower, one of the oldest buildings in the town (1882)

Don’t Miss

Po Delta Regional Natural Park