The water drainage centre Bagnetto, in Castello d'Argile (BO), was built in 1925 and extended in the 1980s. This was one of the principal hydraulic drainage systems that made it possible to reclaim the once swampy lands on the left bank of the river Reno for cultivation and human settlement.
The building, which resembles a massive medieval fortress, houses the tools and instruments that oversee and manage most of the surface waters in the area. There are three imposing drainage pumps inside which can move up to 10 cubic metres of water per second. Outside the main building is the chiavica emissaria (discharge channel) with two protective sluice gates and two pairs of mobile barriers (Da Vinci gates). This leads to the banks of the river Reno, which offers an elevated and panoramic view over the cultivations on the surrounding plain and the ecosystem of significant flora and fauna in the confluence of the Reno and its tributary, the Samoggia river.
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