WOODLAND AREAS
Mesola Wood
The Mesola Wood is wide 1.000 hectares and is located between the Po River of Goro and Volano areas, with a typical Mediterranean vegetation with a prevalence of holm oaks. The Natural Reserve of Mesola Wood is one of the best-kept plain woods. The territory is of alluvial origins and it present an irregular gait. Besides, in the past, there were many bird varieties in the Mesola Wood, but a cause of the draining works, the fauna has been limited in this area with a humid zone inside of the wood, nowadays close to the public.
The Mesola Wood cannot be entirely visited, but it has authorize paths where you can walk or ride with bicycle and see deer and fallow deer.
The Mesola Wood is a great place to spend your vacation, or to simply, spend a relaxing weekend. For more information fill in the form in our contact page.
AGRITOURISM IN PO DELTA
The Traditional Po Delta Cooking
Are you looking for an agritourism in Po Delta?
Tenuta Goro Veneto is a typical Venetian estate in the Po Delta area that offers bed & breakfast or half board services.
The bed & breakfast is surrounded by the nature and it is a peaceful haven to relax, re-discover the contact with nature and to live unforgettable excursions.
The bed & breakfast is divided in eight comfortable double rooms.
The agritourism is perfect to spend a splendid relaxing vacation with your children or your little animals surrounded by the park and the swimming pool.
Reserve now a dinner or a lunch in our agritourism in Po Delta Park. You will find hospitality and typical local products.
You can find us in Via Basilicata – Goro Veneto (RO)
BARRICATA, BONELLI, BACUCCO
Po Delta Beaches
For the sea lovers, there are many easily accessible beaches with complete facilities, where you can find beach properties with sunbeds and beach umbrellas and bars for aperitifs and musical entertainments.
Bacucco and the Island of Love
In the territory of Ariano Polesine, about 10km from Tenuta Goro Veneto – 5 minutes by car + 5 minutes by boat, to arrive at Bacucco beach, once left Romea road, you have to continue in direction of Porto Tolle. Once arrived at Ca’ Vendramin you go on the road parallel to Po di Gnocca, arriving to Gorino Sullam. Once you have passed the town, go on until the bank river, and you will arrive to Bacucco. From here, you can go by boat to the island of love: in the summer, there is the ferryboat service for the beach, entirely shaped by the wind and by the tides.
Barricata
In territory of Porto Tolle about 25 km from Tenuta Goro Veneto – about 15 minutes of car, there is a long and beautiful natural beach reachable thanks to a very characteristic mobile bridge, across the Po side of Tolle. The beach is indeed a real island between the Po River and the sea, and is well-connected to the touristic port of Barricata, with many bars and restaurants.
The sunsets and the horizons with the fishermen boats and the masts of the typical “peociare” for the local mussel farming.
Boccasette
In the territory of Porto Tolle about 30km from Tenuta Goro Veneto – about 20 minutes of car, there is a natural beach with fine sand and transparent sea. You can go there walking or by a new wooden bridge, that dominate the typical valley of rushes and brackish water. On the beach, you can find four beach proprieties, where you can eat and drink and where you can find sunbeds and beach umbrellas.
BY FERRYBOAT
Inside Po Delta
Custom excursions in the heart of Po Delta
Recreational fishing, birdwatching and naturalistic photography
The excursions depart from Santa Giulia di Porto Tolle, near one of the few remaining typical “floating bridges” wich evoke memories of times past.
With our flat-bottomed boats, we are able to visit the wildest and most evocative places of the Po Delta. It is a treasure trove of biodiversity ruled by birds, fish, and the hugely diverse botanical species, which grow in this salty wetland.
During the trip, we will travel down the tributary of the Po di Gnocca until we reach the mouth of the river where it meets the sea weaving our way through ancient lagoons, fishing sites, mudflats and mollusk beds along the way. From the rushes, we will turn towards the “Island of Love” for an aperitif at the Goro Lighthouse, a walk along the shore to collect shells, and, in fine weather, a dip in the Adriatic Sea.
The excursions last approximately three hours, embarking at 10am and returning at 1pm, or with an afternoon departure at 3pm, returning at 6pm.
On request we can also organize specific trips for photographers and birdwatchers who prefer the “magic” hour at dawn or sunset when thousands of water birds take to the air and reflections, colors and tricks of light are amplified. For keen fishermen there is the possibility to sample the fish caught during the trip.
For more information: www.escursionineldeltadelpo.it
12.000 HECTARES OF VALLEYS AND CANALS
Birdwatching
Po Delta Park, and in particular Sacca di Goro, are areas of interest for birdwatching enthusiasts and ornithologists; with its 12.000 hectares of valleys and canals the create a sort of natural labyrinth that offers shelter and hospitality to a large quantity of birds.
Some species that winter here are: the grey herons, bearded reedlings, common snipes, little egrets, mallards, black-crowned night herons, water rails and little bitterns.
Instead, in the summer they nest in the rushes different species, some of them rare in Po Delta, like common shelducks, western marsh harrier and the purple herons.
Tenuta Goro Veneto organizes excursions or mountain bike rides to discover these treasures inside Po Delta Park.
ITINERARIES BY BIKE
Discovering the Most Hidden Dephts of Po Delta
The flat Po Delta Park is the perfect place for naturalistic itineraries by bicycle surrounded by nature. Pedaling is easy to find birds like the grey heron meanwhile is haunting for fish in the bank of a canal, for then spreading its wings and fly on the nearby country. You can find also the little egret or the purple heron.
The lagoon environment of Po Delta is known as one of the richest site from an ecological point of view. The lack of traffic make this area a small paradise for all the bicycle lovers.
One of the most panoramic journeys starts from Goro and go through the bridge of boats of Santa Giulia, until the wonderful inlet of the Sacca degli Scardovari.
BOAT RIDE IN
Po Delta
The agritourism of Tenuta Goro Veneto organizes boat ride in Po Delta to discover the fauna, the flora and the oasis of Po Delta Park, one of the most fascinating regional parks of Italy.
Exploring Po Delta will be an unforgettable experience for all the birdwatching and sheat-fish fishing lovers.
Not to be missed Sacca di Goro or degli Scardovari, the mussel farming and clams, Volano’s Po or della Donzella, the Island of Love, the Island of seagulls or the valley of Gorino.
The fresh water, brackish and salty water, the emerged shoals, the rushes and the dunes allow the proliferation of many species of fauna and flora and the development of fish and mussel farming are activities of particular interest. The Po Delta Park and in particular Sacca di Goro is an area of extraordinary charme for birdwatching lovers and ornithologists; with its 12.000 hectares of valleys and canals they create a sort of natural labyrinth that offers shelter and hospitality to a large quantity of birds.
Some species that winter here are: the grey herons, bearded reedlings, common snipes, little egrets, mallards, black-crowned night herons, water rails and little bitterns.
Instead, in the summer they nest in the rushes different species, some of them rare in Po Delta, like common shelducks, western marsh harrier and the purple herons.
Tenuta Goro Veneto organizes excursions or mountain bike excursions to discovering these treasures inside Po Delta Park.
HORSE RIDE TO DISCOVER
Po Delta
The Po Delta territory and its dirt tracks and the many country itineraries and the small farms, are the perfect places for horses rides and excursions.
For organizing your horse ride you can contact the following horse-tradings:
Maneggio di Alessandrina Mantovan
Via Oca Marina, 44
Polesinello – Taglio di Po
0426/86138 368/323834
Scuola Portovirese di equitazione
Via Po Vecchio, 22
Porto Viro (RO)
338/1824906
Club Amici del Cavallo
Via C. Colombo, 33
Porto Levante – Porto Viro
0426/632847 348/5836324
FISHING IN PO DELTA
Eels and Sheatfishes
FISHING EELS
For all the fishing lovers in fresh water and in particular of eels fishing the Po Delta represents the perfect place to practice this sport.
Eels are elongated fish, ranging in length from 5 cm (2.0 in) in the one-jawed eel to 4 m (13 ft) in the slender giant moray.[2] Adults range in weight from 30 g (1.1 oz) to well over 25 kg (55 lb). They possess no pelvic fins, and many species also lack pectoral fins. The dorsal and anal fins are fused with the caudal fin, forming a single ribbon running along much of the length of the animal. Eels swim by generating body waves which travel the length of their bodies. They can swim backwards by reversing the direction of the wave.
Its preference of limp river bottoms makes Po Delta its ideal habitat. The Legislative Decree n. 173 of 30 April 1998 has classified the eel in the traditional agri-food products. The territory interested in the production includes the valleys of Po Delta and the territories of Rolosina, Porto Viro, Porto Tolle, Ariano nel Polesine in the province of Rovigo.
The eel fishing should be practiced during the night or at dusk with fast-growing tides near the riverbanks where the eel goes looking for food or in isolated places, distant from transport routes. The favorite baits are without doubts the worms and the unwashed entrails of a chicken.
The eel is a delicious fish cooked on grill, this kind of cooking makes the eel meat fat-less and with a good smell.
FISHING SHEATFISH
The aquatic fauna of Po Delta is characterized of a large variety of animals and it can offer unforgettable moments for the lovers of fishing in fresh water.
The sheatfishing is remarkable with its tasty meat and its length that can pass the 2 meters and it represent an appeal to all the fishermen and fishing lovers.
The ultimate predator was the northern pike, nowadays replace by the sheatfish, center-European specie which has found in Po Delta a perfect place for growing.
Other species to fish are: catfish, carp, tench, chub, common rudd, common bleak, leucos aula, Italian nase, common barbell and the European perch.