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Parco di Isola Giarola is located in river’s Po floodplain, in the territory of the municipality of Villanova sull’Arda (PC). The lake towering the floodplain, on the right shore of the great river, in the floodplain area limited by the streams Arda, Ongina and Cavo Fontana, is in reality an artificial basin which formed itself after the extraction activities ended in 1995. Since then, numerous environmental-restoration interventions have been realised, which allowed to the shores to reacquire their naturalness, they are now rich in the typical flora and fauna of peri-fluvial wet environments. Among the flora, there are floating plants with their roots in water such as duckweeds; plants rooted in the sediment but with their leaves floating like water lilies, Brandy-bottles and water chestnuts; plants anchored to the bottom emerging from water such as swamp reeds, irises and sedges, riparian woods with  elms, poplars and willows. In an area of the floodplain, numerous Cherry trees have been planted and they make the place particularly suggestive in the month of April.  The fauna counts red and grey herons, squacco herons  and night ones, ducks and swans, perches, trouts and pikeperches, catfishes, pikes and sturgeons.

For the visitors have been designed didactic paths, the so called “percoso vita”, walks, with the possibility of bike renting, and fishing activities. Floats with roots in water  such as duckweeds; plants rooted in the sediment but with their leaves floating like water lilies, Brandy-bottles and water chestnuts; plants anchored to the bottom emerging from water such as swamp reeds, irises and sedges, riparian woods with  elms, poplars and willows.

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