Valle San Leonardo
The best excellences from the water and the land
The ecosystem of the Valleys hosts some of the best Italian excellences: from the valuable fish fauna to the renowned cultivations of products of the earth that are unobtainable elsewhere
Excellences from the water
The economy of the valleys has always been based on fishing, where eels have been of particular importance.
With the arrival of the Argulus Giordani (called “peocio”) from Asia in the 1970s, a parasite that affected scaleless fish, the production of eels and other fish was drastically decimated.
The last and perhaps most drastic coup de grace was given by the arrival of cormorants, a non-native species, which, unchallenged, due to its voracity has practically eliminated fish production.
Excellences from the land
Always in the tradition of the islands of the Venice Lagoon and the humid and brackish areas of the valleys and the Po Delta, the castraùre and the bòtoli find their unique and ideal environment to grow luxuriantly.
An essential and delicious part of the artichoke plant is represented by the cardo.
Wild asparagus grows spontaneously and is harvested in spring.
