Sacca degli Scardovari Site Features

The mussel and clam beds

Lines of poles and floats across the whole basin, worked from small flat boats. This is a working farm, and seeing it worked is the point.

The birds

Herons, egrets, avocets, waders in numbers, and breeding flamingos -- best in spring and autumn.

The fishermen's huts

Timber and reed structures on stilts around the margins, the vernacular architecture of the delta and steadily disappearing.

The horizon

Water, sky and a low line of sandbar. There is no relief of any kind, and the effect is unlike anywhere else in Italy.