Rosolina

Rosolina sits at three meters above sea level at the northern edge of the Po Delta, forty kilometers south of Venice, between the Adige to the north and the Po di Levante to the south. The commune is recent: it was drained and made habitable through twentieth-century land reclamation that built channels, raised banks and pulled the land out of the lagoon. The frazione of Rosolina Mare runs nine kilometers along the Adriatic, a wide ribbon of fine sand backed by a maritime pine forest replanted in the 1950s as a windbreak.

The pines have since matured into dense woodland and the beach earned the Bandiera Blu through repeated cycles. The Isola di Albarella, five kilometers long by 1. 5 kilometers wide, is a private island bought in the 1960s and developed as a closed resort with one entry road. The Coastal Botanical Gardens and the Ca' Vendramin drainage pump museum, both classified as Sites of European Significance, document the reclamation that built the territory.