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Goro
is located inside the Park of the Po Delta, one of Europe's most intriguing
landscapes and an extremely interesting naturalistic area. The rare
birds that live and nest here, the fishing areas and the typical fish
life of this brackish area (eels and shrimp, grey mullets and atherines,
and clams, mussels and snails) make the delta a unique and, as yet,
little-known environment. Nevertheless, the current appearance of
the five main branches of the delta (Maestra, Pila, Tolle, Gnocca
and Goro) is not just the work of nature but is the outcome of the
continuous deposits of river debris (the coastline is advancing by
60-70 metres a year), as well as the modifications that man himself
has made to change the natural course of the Po. The first to intervene
on the delta were the Venetians, who diverted the river southward
in the seventeenth century to prevent the debris from burying their
lagoon. Subsequent reclamation work - particularly after the unification
of Italy and throughout the twentieth century - also transformed thousands
of hectares of marshland into farmland. The town of Goro is also fairly
young in terms of history. It developed during the eighteenth century
in an area that was covered entirely with bogs at the time. Now it
has become one of the most important fishing centres of the northern
Adriatic, and it also hosts a fish market that attracts buyers from
across northern Italy and abroad. The port is inside the lagoon (inlet)
of Goro, an area of about 26 square kilometres with an average depth
of 1.5 metres. This is the southernmost part of the delta and it is
delimited by a natural dam that opens toward the sea with a mouth
that is about 2.5 km wide. The most interesting events held in Goro
include the fish festival (every weekend in May and June), the feast
of St. Anthony in mid-June and the clam festival at the end of July.
Goro is also the ideal starting point for visiting the sites that
bear witness to the ancient Etruscan and Roman settlements of the
area: Ravenna and its churches, the Roman port of Classe, the Abbey
of Pomposa and the Comacchio valley.
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