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Via Del Rivone - 42048 Rubiera
0039 0522 627902 - Consorzio per la gestione dell'Area di Riequilibrio Ecologico della Cassa di espansione del fiume Secchia (Consortium for the management of the Ecological Rebalancing of the Secchia River Floodplain)
RNSecchia@parchiemiliacentrale.it
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Route characteristics
Travelling time: 3 hours
Overall length: 5.5 km
Difficulty level: medium, long walk
Vegetation:on the banks are many herbaceous species characterized by multicoloured blooms.
Fauna: cormorants and gray herons, while in the spring herons and night herons. In the water it is easy to find specimens of mallard, great crested grebe, coot, teal, gargane, pintail, pochard and, along the marginal areas, the nutria and the moorhen.
Starting point: Centro di Educazione Ambientale l'Airone (Casa Corradini), that can be reached from Via del Rivone, side street of SP85 Province Road (Rubiera-Campogalliano), near the village Fontana.
How to get there
Rubiera
By car
Rubiera is located 12 km from the Reggio Emilia exit of the A1 motorway - National Road 9, Via Emilia, on the Via Emilia and has a Railway Station.
From Campogalliano (Modena) follow directions to the “Curiel” lakes. From Rubiera, take the Province Road No. 85 which takes to Via del Rivone. From Marzaglia Vecchia (Modena), head for the premises of the former oil-press (“ex-frantoio”)
By bus
Bus No. 2 in the direction of Rubiera
Route description
Going up the artificial embankment, you have the opportunity to observe a large portion of the protected area and the areas adjacent to it.
Continue to the right (south / south-west direction) on the artificial embankment until you reach the fixed observation station, which you can reach after crossing the lorry road.
Going up the bank, you pass the farm of the Isola farm and continue going around the whole floodplain area tank up to the spillway.
From this point you can see the building of the Hospitable Court, beyond the SP85, whose construction dates back to the XIV century, and some cultivated areas typical of the Po River Valley landscape.
In spring, along the short escarpments, the presence of the little mouse swallows that nest there is significant.
The landscape is still characterized by the alternation of large reservoirs, which however are interrupted in this area by bumps, some without vegetation, others characterized instead by a mostly shrubby cover.
The riparian belt that delimits the part of the riverbed where the Secchia river flows is widely visible.
When you reach the first building, the spillway, you must go down the embankment, go along the stretch occupied in length by the work and go up again on the embankment. From here we begin to understand the hydraulic functioning of the expansion tank, the device built to moderate the floods of the river and protect the territories downstream of the towns of Rubiera, Modena, Campogalliano and the Modena plain from flood risk.
Follow the embankment to the crossroads leading to the main building; from this point it is possible to use the lorry to reach the opposite embankment, then return directly to the starting point; or you can continue on the embankment, following the perimeter of the reservoirs.
Going up the artificial embankment, you have the opportunity to observe a large portion of the protected area and the areas adjacent to it.
Continue to the right (south / south-west direction) on the artificial embankment until you reach the fixed observation station, which you can reach after crossing the lorry road.
Going up the bank, you pass the farm of the Isola farm and continue going around the whole area of the expansion tank up to the spillway.
From this point you can see the building of the Hospitable Court, beyond the SP85, whose construction dates back to the 15th century, and some cultivated areas typical of the Po Valley landscape.
In spring, along the short escarpments, the presence of the little mouse swallows that nest there is significant.
The landscape is still characterized by the alternation of large reservoirs, which however are interrupted in this area by bumps, some without vegetation, others characterized instead by a mostly shrubby cover.
The riparian belt that delimits the part of the riverbed where the Secchia river flows is widely visible.
When you reach the first building, the spillway, you must go down the embankment, go along the stretch occupied in length by the work and go up again on the embankment. From here we begin to understand the hydraulic functioning of the expansion tank, the device built to moderate the floods of the river and protect the territories downstream of the town of Rubiera, Modena, Campogalliano and the lower Modena from flood risk.
Follow the embankment to the crossroads leading to the main building; from this point it is possible to use the lorry to reach the opposite embankment, then return directly to the starting point; or you can continue on the embankment, following the perimeter of the reservoirs.Going up the artificial embankment, you have the opportunity to observe a large portion of the protected area and the areas adjacent to it.Continue to the right (south / south-west direction) on the artificial embankment until you reach the fixed observation station, which you can reach after crossing the lorry road.Going up the bank, you pass the farm of the Isola farm and continue going around the whole area of the expansion tank up to the spillway.From this point you can see the building of the Hospitable Court, beyond the SP85, whose construction dates back to the 15th century, and some cultivated areas typical of the Po Valley landscape.In spring, along the short escarpments, the presence of the little mouse swallows that nest there is significant.The landscape is still characterized by the alternation of large reservoirs, which however are interrupted in this area by bumps, some without vegetation, others characterized instead by a mostly shrubby cover.The riparian belt that delimits the part of the riverbed where the Secchia river flows is widely visible.When you reach the first building, the spillway, you must go down the embankment, go along the stretch occupied in length by the work and go up again on the embankment. From here we begin to understand the hydraulic functioning of the expansion tank, the device built to moderate the floods of the river and protect the territories downstream of the town of Rubiera, Modena, Campogalliano and the lower Modena from flood risk.Follow the embankment to the crossroads leading to the main building; from this point it is possible to use the lorry to reach the opposite embankment, then return directly to the starting point; or you can continue on the embankment, following the perimeter of the reservoirs.
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