The lagoon is a living museum for the plants, the birds, the fish, the rises, the houses and for the fishermen you can meet there, to allow for those reminiscences of ancient vicissitudes hovering around, wind-born from the past. Visitors are invited to “read” a historic drama spanning the centuries, performed in a world of water, pile-works, huts, roost-houses, boats and fishermen’s tools, household furnishing for the inhabitants of the lagoon, once tied to the wetland in the same way as serfs were tied to the land. The lagoon museum is the forerunner of a major project aimed at the Po Delta in Comacchio. Another achievement will soon be the monographic museum exhibiting the ancient Roman ship found in 1981 at Valle Ponti lagoon and which will be restored by the local council, together with regional and national authorities, is preparing to exhibit in Palazzo Bellini, alongside some restored documentary evidence.

Since the most distant times the organisation of fishing has been centred on the so called “casoni”: centres for many activities and until a few decades ago lodges for the lagoon folk in their long stays for work in the lagoon. There are two kinds of casone: those for fishing and those used as guardhouses against poaching.

Serilla casone was one of the large fishing stations, the central one in the goon quarter of the same name. Its importance derived from the extent of the fishing area, the quantity of the catch and from the type of work done inside it. It was also a storage and distribution centre for the needs of the lagoon.