{"id":19933,"date":"2015-07-22T16:06:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T16:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/992-for-this-summer-a-magical-mystery-tour-bis\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T21:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:01:12","slug":"992-for-this-summer-a-magical-mystery-tour-bis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/blog\/992-for-this-summer-a-magical-mystery-tour-bis\/","title":{"rendered":"For this summer: a magical mystery tour (bis)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>When people talk about the Po estuary it usually conjures up images of a flat, boring landscape. Well, that couldn\u2019t be more wrong: the Po delta has a wealth of rice fields, stunning natural landscapes and Renaissance art treasures, including several UNESCO World Heritage sites.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trips to the Po delta start from Chioggia, a pretty little town in the Veneto region (you could make the most of this by including to\u00a0<a title=\"Locaboat base in Chioggia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/boating-holidays\/italy\/venice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Venice cruise<\/a>\u00a0on your itinerary). First stop:\u00a0<strong>Adria<\/strong>, located in a natural conservation area. The town got its name because it was once the main point of access to the Adriatic. But the first really outstanding place you\u2019ll visit is Mantua, a city close to Virgil\u2019s birthplace. It lies in the heart of Lombardy and has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2008, thanks to its stunning Renaissance architecture. From the small lake just outside the city walls you get an amazing view of the\u00a0<strong>Ducal Palace<\/strong>, which dates from the 14th-17th centuries. You can then visit some of the enormous rooms in the palace and stand in awe in the Bridal Chamber (\u201cCamera degli Sposi\u201d), which is covered in trompe l\u2019\u0153il frescoes that give a 3-D illusion. In the city, there\u2019s something to see on every corner: a church, basilica or palace\u2026 there\u2019s also great ice cream here, like the gelato sold at the Gelateria Loggetta, one of the city\u2019s best-kept secrets. Once you\u2019ve left Mantua and passed through the little town of\u00a0<strong>Castelmassa<\/strong>, you can stop in\u00a0<strong>Ferrara<\/strong>, another jewel of the Renaissance, which is also listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site and is the birthplace of the composer Frescobaldi. If you take a tour of the\u00a0<strong>Castello d\u2019Este<\/strong>, an imposing red brick castle, and then visit the magnificent San Giorgio cathedral, you\u2019ll get a fascinating insight into the history of Italy. The\u00a0<strong>Palazzo de la Ragione<\/strong>\u00a0might remind you of St. Mark\u2019s Square in Venice, with its impressive colonnades. Make sure you try a pasticcio, a macaroni pie with a pastry lid, which is a speciality of the Ca\u2019d\u2019Frara restaurant. It\u2019s a must! Before you leave to return to\u00a0<a title=\"Locaboat base in Chioggia\" href=\"\/en\/boating-holidays\/italy\/venice\/chioggia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Locaboat base in Chioggia<\/a>, be sure to stop off in\u00a0<strong>Boccasette<\/strong>, in the heart of the Po Delta regional park. It sits on a lovely lagoon, facing the Adriatic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people talk about the Po estuary it usually conjures up images of a flat, boring landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[345],"tags":[414,209],"class_list":["post-19933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bucket-list","tag-chioggia","tag-italy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19934,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19933\/revisions\/19934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}