10 Km from the hotel

The Regional Drainage Museum of Ca' Vendramin was created in the former dewatering pump system, resigned in the late' 60s. The Museum aims to hand down the activity of draining swamps and marshes and maintaining the areas continuously in balance between land and water livable, that allows the coexistence of environmental conservation with the indispensable economic development of the people of the Po Delta.

At the museum you can visit: 

• The educational-scientific visitation centre


• The old machinery consisting in steam boilers and centrifugal pumps used after the construction of the plant in the early 1900s for the drainage of the basin in the island of Ariano


• The old mechanical workshop for the maintenance of plant and machinery


• The historical archive of the drainage institutions that were active one after another in the area Po Delta


• Dining point and toilets


• Thematic exhibitions about the lagoon and delta areas


• The study centre for the "International Delta and lagoons Laboratory".