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Identity Card

  • Delta del Po Emilia-Romagna Regional Park:
    • Land Surface Area: 53'653.00 ha
    • Protected flora: 4 species  (Italian text)
    • Protected wildlife: 273 species  (Italian text)
    • Habitats: 23 types (Italian text)
    • Regions: Emilia Romagna
    • Provinces: Ferrara, Ravenna
    • Municipalities: Alfonsine, Argenta, Cervia, Codigoro, Comacchio, Goro, Mesola, Ostellato, Ravenna
    • Establishment Measures: LR 27 02/07/1988
    • PA Official List: EUAP0181
  • Further managed Protected Areas:
    • Riserva Naturale Orientata Dune Fossili di Massenzatica
    • Riserva Naturale Speciale Alfonsine
    • Sito di Interesse Comunitario (SIC) Adriatico settentrionale - Emilia-Romagna (IT4060018)
    • Zona di Protezione Speciale Valle del Mezzano
    • Zona Speciale di Conservazione Pineta di Cervia
    • Zona Speciale di Conservazione Relitto della piattaforma Paguro
    • Zona Speciale di Conservazione e Zona di Protezione Speciale Bardello
    • Zona Speciale di Conservazione e Zona di Protezione Speciale Biotopi di Alfonsine e Fiume Reno
    • Zona Speciale di Conservazione e Zona di Protezione Speciale Dune di Massenzatica
    • Zona Speciale di Conservazione e Zona di Protezione Speciale Dune di San Giuseppe
    • Zona Speciale di Conservazione e Zona di Protezione Speciale Pialasse Baiona, Risega e Pontazzo
    • Zona Speciale di Conservazione e Zona di Protezione Speciale Pineta di Classe
    • Zona Speciale di Conservazione e Zona di Protezione Speciale Pineta di San Vitale, Bassa del Pirottolo
    • Zona Speciale di Conservazione e Zona di Protezione Speciale Punte Alberete, Valle Mandriole
    • Zona Speciale di Conservazione e Zona di Protezione Speciale Valle Bertuzzi, Valle Porticino-Cannevié
    • Zona Speciale di Conservazione e Zona di Protezione Speciale Valli di Argenta
    • Zona Speciale di Conservazione e Zona di Protezione Speciale Valli di Comacchio
    • Paesaggio Protetto della Centuriazione
    • Valli residue di Comacchio

 

 

A Park Shaped by Water...

Emilia-Romagna Po Delta Park characterized by unique territorial and ecological features. It covers over 52,000 hectares of an area which is considered among the most productive and rich in biodiversity: the Park has thus a respectable identity card.
Even if it is one of the most inhabited and economically developed Protected Areas in Italy, Emilia-Romagna Po Delta Park still preserves the largest expanse of protected wetlands. This is why it has supported and founded the International Association of Delta Parks: "Delta chiama Delta".
Given its historical role of cultural and economic crossroads between West and East, the Po Delta preserves many important traces of its magnificent past. Within the Park, therefore, valuable natural elements coexist with great artistic and cultural beauties – which have been recognized also by Unesco.
The Po Delta Park is a very complex Protected Area, since it is at the same time a terrestrial Park, a fluvial Park, and a coastal Park. Its most typical natural element is undoubtedly water, but other easy lines of communication can be used to reach the Park.
The unstable relationship between water and land, their uncertain balance, gave birth in the Po Delta to a varied and changeable landscape in which woods, pinewoods, and flooded forests alternate with inner fresh or salt water wetlands. The biodiversity characterizing the delta territory is extraordinary, above all for the presence of more than 280 bird species.
The most characteristic aspects of the Delta are dealt with in detail in the Park Visitor Centers and museums.

Comacchio saltworks
Comacchio saltworks
Photo by A Park Shaped by Water...
 

Flora

The flora of the Po Delta Regional Park is characterized by many species, due to a great diversity of environments: from the meadows of glasswort, to the lush forests of oak, ash and alder, the ammophiline that colonize the sands of the coastal dunes, and the reeds that still characterize large areas of the landscape. Among the most common vegetation there are the halophytes, plants that grow on widespread surfaces, perennially or seasonally flooded with salt water.

(These links lead to Italian web pages)

Further information

 

Photo by Flora
 

Fauna

The territory of the Emilia-Romagna Delta Po Park is considered as one of the last surviving and best preserved complexes of European wetlands, which contains many habitats, from rivers and stagnant freshwater to lagoons and salty water valleys, from residual dune areas to plain forests and coastal pine forests.

(These links lead to Italian web pages)

Further information

Photo by Fauna
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