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Visit to 'plant a land Marozzo

1874: a long time ago.

Edison had not invented the electric light bulb and the roads turned bi us bicycles, as well as CONOS we love you today, but we veil pedi with a large front wheel.

Well that year, in Italy, in the small village of Marozzo , opens a large impi anto scooping , powered by steam engines, to lift and download Bit of water coming from the flywheel 12,500 hectares of reclaimed land, all located under the sea level.

It was there pros ugato a large lake valley to get land to cultivate.

The plant has worked continuously for 113 years, allowing those campaigns over time to accommodate homes, roads, factories and schools.

In 1986 the old system of scooping Marozzi has retired and turned into a museum which houses inside the old pumps, motors and gears that in the distant past, the great-grandfathers of our grandfathers had seen work

citizens, children and groups of people are now curious to see him, even making a trip to the new impi anto , built on the side, wondering what would happen and what could still happen if the 'scooping stopped.

better not happen ... if we do not know how to swim.

Barbara Guzzo

Brazilian After Itchy

weak: CLEANING in Ferrara

The distribution of water on the planet

the Bronze Age (about 3000 years ago), the shoreline was located far to the west.

In the Middle Ages migrated to the north of the Po delta, the Fly and the Po Po's service would, in 1065, the main river branches.

Ercole II d'Este in 1559 began the Great Reclamation, which is the arrangement of the marshland between Copparo, Codicote and Mesola.

In the nineteenth century, the shoreline and the peninsula of the delta had reached its present shape, as more and more extended valleys were brackish.

the machines work hard alongside the hundreds of scariolante that contribute to the creation of the drainage network

The catchment area of \u200b\u200bour territory

The Ferrara area compared to sea level

the problems of land

1) lowering the soil level: SUBSIDENCE

2) CARS salt wedge that is the entrance of salt water

Cause:

• lowering of the whole than Sea
• Rising sea levels
• Lowering of the beds of the delta branches to reduce sediment deposits
• phenomena increasingly frequent dry rivers

3) urbanization

Toenail Removed Replacement

Know our Habitat

The Po Valley is of alluvial origin, formed by deposition of debris in fact different grain transported by the river Po

The province of Ferrara is completely flat, is characterized by a strong presence of water. The climate
"Continental transition" characterized by a temperature range of 18-20 ° between summer and winter and an 'average humidity of 60%.
(clicking on the map below you can "fly" above Ferrara)

Among the most important natural areas in our vicinity there Wetlands or Ramsar Zone (Treaty 1971), for their great variety of microhabitats allow the presence of many forms of life (high biodiversity)

still survive a few relics of the great woods, "Woods Eliceo"

natural environments that differ greatly from the typical moist soil in our area,
are the ancient deposit of sand dunes dating back to the bronze. They have a typical vegetation
xerophilous (dry environments)

In our campaigns

For those who live in cities

What threatens these natural environments

Some of the areas you should visit

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