La Bordeghina   Bed & Breakfast in the farm

More than a simple bed with breakfast

1477 Marconi Street - 45010 Pontecchio Polesine - (Rovigo) Italy - Tel/fax 0039 0425 31263   or  0039 347 222 96 56

The first human traces in Bordeghina are from Bronze Age.

Recent researches enabled to discover in the area a site from Bronze Age, 3600 years old, located at about one km from the house. Probably it is part of an old village on palafittes. In the area are present many archaeological sites from roman age, both of republican and of imperial age. One of these is located right in the property of Bordeghina and presents the remains of a roman villa and a second settlement from byzantine period.

The territory of Pontecchio takes its actual configuration after the reclamation made by the Ferrara lordship at the end of 1400. In 1560, as this ancient map shows, the farm was a property of the Venice noble family of Grimani and the structure of the building was in cannas and straw. In 1615 for the first time we find the name of Bordeghin a Grimani’s renter who gave his name to the farm.

In 1775 catastatic we find a draw of the house in brickwork with stable and hayloft. 

The house took its actual shape in ‘800 when was added a floor for the granary and built a big winery. The last restores are made from the actual owner in 1996-97 and 2002-03. Maragno’s family live in the house from the beginning of ‘900, before as renter and then as owners. The purchase was made thank to the extraction of marsh gas, activity the Maragno family made starting in the ’50.

In the house garden existed a domestic well for methane extraction, active since 1925, which supplied the residence of gas for cooking and  lighting.

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