Flavours

Protected products and their stories

Four products, four landscapes. Each designation tells how land wrested from the rivers became a vegetable garden, a rice field, a nursery on the sea.

Cloves of Aglio Bianco Polesano PDO garlic

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Aglio Bianco Polesano PDO, the white gold between the Po and the Adige

A plait of snow-white bulbs that tells of centuries of fields won from the waters

From the Romans to hand-made plaits: the story of Aglio Bianco Polesano PDO, the «white gold» grown in 29 municipalities between the Po and the Adige.

The Sacca degli Scardovari in Porto Tolle with a fishing hut and poles in the water

FlavoursPorto Tolle

Cozza di Scardovari PDO, the black pearl of the Sacca

Where the Po meets the sea, a lagoon has become the nursery of a unique mussel

A lagoon between two branches of the Po, a fishing community and a flood: how the Cozza di Scardovari PDO came to be, the «peòcio» of the Delta.

The road bridge over the Adige at Lusia, with the river and grassy banks

FlavoursLusia

Insalata di Lusia PGI, the market garden born from the sand of the Adige

A breach in the river buried the fields in sand: from that came the «Capitale degli Orti»

A breach in the Adige buried the fields in sand and wheat would no longer grow. Lettuce took its place: the story of Insalata di Lusia PGI.

Grey herons and little egrets in a rice field in the Po Delta Park

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Riso del Delta del Po PGI, the grain that grows between river and sea

From the estates of Venetian patricians to the mondine: five centuries of rice on reclaimed land

In the Delta, rice arrived with land reclamation: from the Venetian laws of 1594 to the mondine, the story of Riso del Delta del Po PGI.