A Museum for the Delta
The Museo
Delta Antico
The Museo Delta Antico is located in the heart of Comacchio, a few steps away from the Trepponti, the symbolic monument of the city, in a grand neoclassic building known as ‘l’Ospedale degli Infermi’.
Its collection, which includes over two-thousand artefacts, tells the history and the evolution of the ancient Po Delta. For centuries, the large river, named Eridano by the Greeks and Padus by the Romans, has shaped this land and has made it a fundamental hub for trade and commerce between the East and the West, up to the gates of Europe.
The History of the Museo Delta Antico
The Etruscan Spina
One of the most important Etruscan cities in the Mediterranean and a privileged port for Greek ships in the Adriatic.
The Romans in the Delta
A crossroads of trade between waterways and land routes under Roman control, in ancient Ravenna.
The Roman ship’s cargo
The grand cargo of a merchant ship that sank around 2,000 years ago along the ancient coastline.
Comacchio in the Middle Ages
A great emporium with Mediterranean horizons that dominated the Adriatic for centuries.
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