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The second-tallest building in Italy is the chimney of a defunct power plant in the Po Delta.
The Po River ends its long journey through northern Italy in a large delta, mostly located in the province of Rovigo. The area formed just in the last few centuries from sediment brought by the river, and it is now sparsely populated and protected as an interregional park. So it may seem surprising that a large power station was built in the 1980s near the very tip of the delta, on the Po della Pila branch of the river, near the hamlets of Pila and Polesine Camerini. The power station is officially called Porto Tolle Power Station, from the name of the municipality it is in, but it is more commonly known as the Polesine Camerini Power Station.
