The Cavour Canal is an artificial canal built in the mid-nineteenth century, in just three years, on the initiative of Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, to support theagriculture that originates from the Po and Chivasso rivers and which ends by discharging in the Ticino river.
The Cavour Canal, the third longest in Italy, is an awe-inspiring work both for its speed of construction and for the perfection of construction achieved by employing only bricks and stones.
Still today it is intended to bring irrigated water to rice-growing cultures in the Vercelli and Novara areas. It is an artificial waterway nearly 83 km long.
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