Daniele Ietri and Eleonora Mastropietoro, with contributions by Tobias Boos, Daniela Salvucci, Paolo Martelli, Attila Faravelli, Dorothy Louise Zinn, Matteo Capobianco /Ufocinque, Melania Ruggini, Marco Boffi, Nicola Rainisio, Carlotta Colonna, and Alessio Zemoz

“Porto Tolle, Italy’s youngest land.” That’s how the town was introduced to us the first time we visited: new land, land that emerged as a result of the diversion of the Po River carried out by the Venetian Republic in the early 1600s, and later reclaimed land. A land divided into three parts by the river’s branches: cut in half by the Po di Venezia and bordered to the northwest by the Po di Maistra and to the southeast by the Po di Gnocca or della Donzella. Two permanent bridges and two others made of boats (one temporary) connect the three islands that make up the municipality. Eleven hamlets are scattered across these islands. Many numbers in this edition: eleven of us for six days to explore eleven hamlets located on three islands, some above and some below sea level. In the Delta region, this marks the fourth Season of Studies on the Here, a project for the in-depth mapping of Italian territories.

Year: 2025

Publisher: Mimesis Edizioni

Collection: Deep Maps/Mappe Profonde