Rovigo is a modern city whose past is mapped out by its remarkable historic buildings.
The Medieval influence can be seen in the towers that look over the city, such as the tower in via Pighin and the two leaning towers: Donà -one of the highest Italian medieval towers- and the Mozza tower.
There are also many Renaissance mansions: Palazzo Roverella, Palazzo Roncale di Michele Sanmicheli and Palazzo dell?Accademia dei Concordi, which hosts the Painting Gallery of the same name.
The remarkable Cathedral dedicated to St. Stephen Pope and Martyr preserves many sculptures and paintings.
Heading towards the Adriatic Sea we come to the Po Delta Park, an area where masterpieces of nature and man unite to offer a sensational landscape. From the countryside, to the fossil dunes, the river banks, to the floodplains, the fishing valleys, to the lagoons, there are so many different landscapes to discover and experience in learning about the nature and history of this land.
In the Veneto area the Po Delta Park comprises nine municipalities including Porto Tolle, which boasts one of the most suggestive and precious landscapes in Italy, with spits of land that alternate with branches of rivers, islets, cane fields and fishing valleys; and Adria, the small, pretty town that gave the Adriatic its name, full of artistic jewels, and site of the National Archaeological Museum with its remarkable Etruscan and Roman finds.
In Fratta Polesine it is possible to admire Villa Badoer, one of the most beautiful Palladian villas realized in the Veneto area (16th Century), its interiors adorned with frescoes by Pierfrancesco Giallo Fiorentino. Badoer is one of 24 Palladian villas named as a single UNESCO World Heritage Site.
In Polesella too, there are many Renaissance villas which are all representative of the elegance and magnificence of the typical Venetian architecture.
Rosolina a Mare, a pretty small town on the Adriatic coast, has a vast sandy shore and a dense pine forest.
