“Cultural infrastructures in Veneto. Earth and water pathways in the landscapes of the archaeology”

New infrastructures can be seen as a vehicle to interpret the cultural stratifications of a territory, like shares of structures composing and increasing the value of the crossed landscapes, connecting their most meaningful places. The knowledge of the specificities and the criticalities of the Venetian territory, can guides in the definition of new cultural itineraries, integrated with the network of routes and connected to actions of retraining for the places of archaeology with landscape interest. The attention turns to the territory of Rovigo’s District, delimited and innervated by navigable waterways that strongly have characterized the construction as the agricultural and industrial use of the ground. Between the Po and Adige Rivers there are unusual intersections on different scales, just where the future motorways (Nogara-Adriatic Sea, south Valdastico, New Romea) going through a predominantly agricultural landscape, they intercept both an important water network and a considerable heritage of industrial archaeology. In Polesine, if the referable recoveries to the classical archaeology, as those imputable to preceding historical periods, rarely represent "visible” consistencies, the excavations, with the exception of few cases, have brought to the light fragments of settlements, some of which removed from the places of founding again to be recomposed and shown inside the local museums. In the countryside, many places and artefacts remember the industrial past of the region: ex sugar or tobacco factories, hemp-mill, but also former furnaces and dewatering pumps, otherwise tied up to the geomorphology of the places. The dereliction and the absence of a project considering the heritage in its whole, often move politics of recovery turning those buildings into museums of themselves. For these questions, the research is detecting a series of possible correlated actions, by which few visible archaeological sites can be integrated in some significant cultural routes. The nature represents, in such sense, together with the rural vocation of the region, an important tool of project, verifying in progress different sceneries within some study cases. One of them is constituted by the layout of an abandoned railway line, departing from Adria, and reaching Ariano Polesine. On the other side, the essay underline the ways of giving quality to a territory by means of the right relationships between new infrastructures and the different archaeologies of Veneto’s landscape.