The ``Morandina``

A large floodplain of the Adige, the Morandina is a stream coming from the city centre along which the first residential area was laid out, made up of wooden houses to facilitate their demolition in case of enemy invasion, during the Austrian domination.

“The Morandina was reinforced by water from the “Bearara” spring and then, through the fields that it helped to irrigate with complicated systems of canals, ended up in the vast countryside of “San Michele” and then, before “Bosco Buri”, inexorably flowed into the Adige. Resurgent waters, clear, fresh, limpid as crystals in a showcase capable of preserving splendid green algae and quivering lilac blossoms in spring and, in the midst of which, the ‘marangoni’ darted inexhaustibly”.

(“Il Porto quel giorno”, Comune di Verona, Circoscrizione 7, 1984).

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The ``Fernandea``

This was the name given to the Milan-Venice railway line, which came into operation in 1849 and delimited the northern part of the Porto San Pancrazio district. It profoundly transformed the almost “Arcadian” life of the inhabitants of the village, who at that time lived off the resources of the Adige and the products of the alluvial soil.

The nearby Porta Vescovo station was then built, in neoclassical style, white in colour, with a large iron roof. In the large square framed by greenery, carriages stood at that time ready to welcome travellers coming from Milan or Venice on an important part of the mysterious and fictional route of the “Orient Express”. More modest travellers, on the other hand, had to be content to reach the centre by horse-drawn tram.

In the La Buccetta B&B, a small coal deposit has been found which bears witness to the activity of women and retired people who sifted through the coal slag that accumulated along the railway in search of unburnt grains.

Stazione di Porta Vescovo