メデの天然記念物・トップ6

the great river; in front, further upstream, the area of the confluence of the Sesia and the Po, where between November and February thousands of cranes stop; in the distance, Monte Rosa

The heronry, located in western Lomellina, rises in a humid area consisting of the paleoalveo of the Agogna stream, in the municipal area of Zeme (PV). This heronry is the largest of the 13 present throughout the province and also one of the most populous. It is made up of a set of different environments: a humid forest of black alders, some bushy areas of willow, expanses of marsh reeds, mazzasorde, sedges, and vast areas flooded by spring waters devoid of vegetation.

The bumps are tiny hills, generally sandy, which until a few decades ago characterized the landscape of our Lomelline countryside. Most of these very modest reliefs have been leveled to make way for poplar groves and rice fields and the only testimony that remains of them is, in many cases, the ups and downs of the country roads which gives those who walk them the amazement of finding some meters above the level of the cultivated countryside. In the area of the bumps, the alternation of hollows and ridges is visible which testifies to how the surface of our plain has been shaped by the continuous changes in the paths of the rivers, by the incessant work of streams, as well as by the erosion caused by atmospheric agents. Those who pass through Lomellina, after having crossed long stretches of very flat countryside, are pleasantly surprised to discover, in the heart of these centers, small hills flanked by old houses or ancient churches overlooking gently sloping churchyards.

The WHITE POPLAR included in 2016 among the #alberimonumentaliitaliani planted in 1984 by Francesco Castellini, the only survivor of the terrible massacre of Secco on 29 June 1944. Three bloody criminals, two of Czechoslovakian origin and one Austrian, deserters from the German army, after having already carried out massacres for the purpose of robbery in various places in the province of Alessandria, arrived in the area of Castelnuovo Scrivia and massacred first Carlo Galanti in Molino and then six people from the Sottotetti and Castellini al Secco families. The massacre was horrible, also because it was carried out with hammers, billhooks and blades for slaughtering the pigs. It could have been even more tragic if at the Vecchia farmhouse, at one in the morning, with six other people held hostage, they had not decided to give up "because they were tired of killing".

Once at the foot of these waterfalls two beached beaches emerged on both banks of the stream, unfortunately a flood occurred in 2003 irreparably changed the course of the stream by destroying and modifying its conformation, after these events it took human intervention to secure the whole area.