Parco Fluviale di Lambioi

Where the Piave sweeps beneath Belluno, Lambioi riverside park occupies the riverbank below the old town.

Why it matters

Belluno perches on a promontory at the confluence of the Ardo stream with the Piave, and for most of the twentieth century the strip of land at the river's level was a degraded edge of the city. The creation of Parco Fluviale di Lambioi changed that relationship: the municipality invested in the riverside as public space. The city's urban-planning portal documents the park as part of a programme to rehabilitate the ecological network along the Piave, including the Lambioi stretch of the left bank.

What to notice

The park occupies the Piave's gravel-barred alpine riverbank, with Belluno's old town on the promontory above. Its recreation facilities are set among trees near the water.

Context and history

Lambioi was planned as a connection between the valley floor and the centre; a moving walkway opened in August 1998. The October 2018 storm Vaia caused flooding and wind damage, prompting reconstruction. Since then the municipality has kept investing in the riverside, and the urban-planning portal documents successive phases of the "riqualificazione e potenziamento della rete ecologica" — rehabilitation and strengthening of the ecological network — along the Piave at Lambioi, the left-bank floodplain area. The park you see today is therefore a rebuilt and extended version of the pre-2018 layout.