The Natural Reserve of the Canal Novo Valley in Marano Lagunare

Marano Lagunare is an Italian town of 1734 inhabitants in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, in the province of Udine. This locality was disputed between the Holy Roman Empire and Venice in the early decades of the sixteenth century, only in 1866 did it become under Italian domination. Among the best known and most evocative places of this municipality we find the Loggia Maranese, originally a watchtower, and the Bastione di Sant'Antonio, part of the walls that once surrounded the town, demolished in the nineteenth century. The video offers a series of suggestive images on the most characteristic place of this country, the Natural Reserve of the Canal Novo Valley: a valley originally used for fish farming, now with a lagoon appearance with an abundance of water and sandbanks. The type of fauna that most populates this valley concerns species of birds related to water, such as Mute and Wild Swans, Gray and Wild Geese, Shelduck, and many other sub-categories. The Valley can be visited and tells the very long history of a place divided for a long time between sea and land, a meeting point and exchange of goods, as well as of different cultures.