Which are the best hotels in the area of mouth of river Po for those want to experience a naturalistic weekend? Hotel Antica Corte Marchesini is located about 50km from that suggestive location where the brunches of the Po river meet, and after crossing the entire Valley of Padua from Monviso, flow into the Adriatic Sea.
Mouth of river Po: why choose the hinterland of Venice for your naturalistic exploration
For many people, holidays means peace, relax, solitude and inspiration: if this is exactly what you’re looking for, we recommend you staying at our hotel and planning a naturalistic exploration in the hinterland of Venice, to discover the mouth of river Po.
Would you like a hotel in a strategic area that allows to experience a weekend not only in the nature but also in the nightlife of the best Venecian Bacaro? Then Hotel Antica Corte Marchesini is the choice that makes all the senses happy.
Imagine yourself in a place that mentally detaches you from the routine and from the same landscapes, from imposed sociality and from all that there is of routine and always the same that flows before our eyes. Paradise awaits you 50 km south of Campagna Lupia, where you can enjoy a scenario that can engage you and kidnap you for its unique landscape.
Visit the mouth of river Po, UNESCO heritage
That one of the mouth of river Po is the biggest wetland of Italy, a repository of rich and rare flora and fauna and different ecosystems where biodiversity is preserved to protect and value: for this reason the mouth of river Po is a UNESCO heritage.
In particular, it has been recognised as a Biosphere Reserve under the Man and the Biosphere (Mab) programme, which aims to combine the enhancement of natural heritage with sustainable development strategies.
Excursions on mouth of Po from Hotel Antica Corte Marchesini
If the idea of a naturalistic weekend begins to fascinate you, probably you’re wondering which excursions in the mouth of river Po you can plan from our hotel. Visiting a similar place is an undoubtedly a life experience: it’s about seeing, feeling and breathing the beauty in one of those rare environments where everything seems to have preserved in its original form and able to provide the visitor with a sort of “return to the source”. Then, relax in the garden of our hotel and start organizing with serenity your excursion on mouth of river Po, choosing between these 4 activities:
1. Birdwatching
In the park of mouth of the river Po there are over tree hundred species of birds, which makes it a real paradise for birdwatchers. This means that, if armed with binoculars and respectful of silence, you can make sensational meeting between cranes, hawks, herons, grebes and even pink flamingo (but for the last ones you will have to come to the site at sunrise!).
Sometimes adventures don’t need adrenaline to consider themselves as such: to be able to bring a bit of that peace always with himself just a walk in places where nature has remained untouched with only its animal inhabitants to frequent it offers an oasis of peace to observe, photograph and remember.
2. Biketour through the dunes
If you love sport especially when you practice it outdoors, you have to take the opportunity to plan a biketour in the mouth of Po. In fact, you can choose from over 20 routes and cycling routes suitable for every level of training and all still breathtaking from a landscape point of view.
Are you a sportsman and want to take a breath of fresh air compared to the usual workout in the gym? A bike excursion is what you need to keep fit and empty your head, enjoying a suggestive and regenerating panorama.
3. Walk to the Salina di Comacchio
From spring to autumn it’s possible to visit, on foot or through a train trip, the splendid Salina di Comacchio, whose supraselated waters were already used in Etruscan Times for the production and trade of the so-called “white gold”.
It is a precious and enchanting treasure chest, a crossroads of culture and nature as well as of history and territory, perfect as a backdrop to fabulous photographs and delicate poems that will imprint the landscape in your memories.
However, the area can only be visited with the help of authorized guides on fixed days, so remember to book your visit!
4. Tour by boat
If you really want to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the ancient Po goers, you should definitely navigate its canals with a boat tour. It’s about taking part in a trip that offers an unusual vantage point from where you can “change perspective”, accessing areas that would not be reachable in any other way.
So your excursion will be truly exclusive and you will feel like an explorer of the past. There are many operators who organize boat excursions: whether you want to travel the canals up the delta, get lost among lakes and reeds, enjoy an aperitif on the road or sail the great Po, you will certainly find here your peace of mind.
Where and what to eat near mouth of river Po?
At this point you just need to know where and what to eat in the area of the river Po, is it right? You are spoiled for choice. On the banks of Po there are in fact inns, old taverns and restaurants where you can taste the typical specialities of this unique landscape, suspended between water and land, such as rice, sea bass and eels, the radicchio of Chioggia, clams of Polesine and the pink oysters…
To orient yourself in the big choice of the culinary offer, which definitely worth exploring, you need to know also that famous chefs Alessandro Borghese and Carlo Cracco also visited the mouth of the river Po in search of its gastronomical enhancement.
In particularly, Borghese has chosen, for his selection of four restaurants, to enhance the freshness of the fish and the quality of a organic product and of zero kilometer, visiting La Palafitta in Porto Viro; In Marinetta in Rosolina; Canarin and the Osteria Arcadia, which emerged as the winner, in Porto Tolle.
Chef Cracco then, for his Dinner Club, focused on the pink oyster Tarbouriech di Scardovari, called also “the pearl of Delta”, tasted in Ristorante Maltraversi of the oyster farmer Alessio Greguoldo.
