Delta

Po Delta

With its 652 km, the Po is the longest river, with the greatest flow and the most important in Italy. In fact, it crosses 4 Regions and 13 Provinces, finally flowing into a huge Delta in the upper Adriatic.
The current morphology of the Delta is mainly due to two major events that have occurred throughout history: the breaking of its banks following the strong earthquake that hit the area of ​​Ferrara in 1570 and the decision taken by the Republic of Venice in 1604, to divert the main course of the river southwards, since the Delta risked burying the Venetian lagoon.

The valleys, scattered throughout the Polesine area, are old Venetian noble estates, today used both for intensive and extensive fish farming and through the practice of elite hunting.
The entire area of ​​the Delta (786 sq km), like those who live there, is extremely wild, almost primordial. It is a unique area of ​​its kind precisely because man needs nature as much as nature needs man. Without human intervention, all the lagoons would in fact become smelly swamps. In this sense, the exploitation of the territory with its animals actually means that the area can continue to breathe.

Documenting hunting and fishing is more of an excuse to try to represent the ancestral link that exists between man and nature, in this area full of facets and contrasts that frame the whole.