Started in the second half of the 1700s, shortly before the Serenissima Republic fell under Napoleon, their construction was perfected in the 19th century by the famous hydraulic engineer Pietro Paleocapa, the creator of the dams at the harbor mouths.
On sunny days, they are a destination for walks and sunbathing for many Venetians, along with the sandy dunes of the Alberoni, now a protected oasis at the southernmost tip, covered with spontaneous vegetation such as reeds, goat lilies, and black rushes, backed by a generous curtain of pines, poplars, and tamarisks.
A small Eden that, gradually, has been repopulated by little ringed plovers and sandpipers, larks, bee-eaters, wagtails, and little egrets.
