Chioggia

Chioggia [ kjɔddʒa ] ( venezian. Cióxa ) is a city in the Italian region of Veneto and seaport in the south of the Venice Lagoon. It has 49 693 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) and an area of 185 km ².

Geography

Built on wooden piles city is located in the province of Venice. She wears because of their similarity to the nickname " Little Venice ". Chioggia is connected by a bridge to the mainland. The Canal Vena divides the city and is crossed by nine bridges.

History

The origin of Chioggia is in the legend. It is reported that Antenor, Aquil and Clodio, fleeting, settled from the Trojan War on the upper Adriatic coast. Aquil founded Aquileia, Padua and Antenor Clodio Clodia. Pliny described the port city of Edron, which was later called Fossa Clodia. The name Clodia changed over time to Cluza and Clugia in order to eventually convert to Chioggia. The first mention of the city are to be found in Byzantine manuscripts from the fifth century.

In the Middle Ages Chioggia enjoyed municipal rights and in 1110 it was raised to the episcopal see. During the so-called Chioggia War, the decisive clash between Venice and Genoa, conquered the Genoese in 1379 after an invasion of sea-side town, but were repulsed in 1380 by Venice.

1797 Napoleon Bonaparte occupied Venice and Chioggia hence the French administration was subordinated. The Treaty of Campo Formio in 1798, the city was handed over to Austria. Until 1814, the administration moved between the two occupying powers (or the Napoleonic " Republic of Italy "). From 1814 to 1866 was with Chioggia Veneto part of the Empire of Austria, then it came to Italy.

Attractions

The most important churches are the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta in the 11th century, San Domenico from the 13th and San Martino from the 14th century. In addition, there is still one of the city gates, the Porta di Santa Maria Assunta.

From the Vigo Bridge at the end of the main road, you have a view over the lagoon to the islands Pellestrina and Lido di Venezia to Venice itself the Corso del Popolo, the main axis of the city, the Italian writer Curzio Malaparte called a single large outdoor cafe. In the evening the road to traffic is blocked, and Thursdays will find the very large market place, as well as the factory daily fish market.

Economy

Chioggia economic development can be traced to the late antiquity traced (see Economic history of the Republic of Venice). The fishing and growing vegetables ( radicchio rosso, also called " la rosa di Chioggia ", and carrots ) are the main economic activities of the town; Chioggia has the largest fish market in Italy. It produces steel, bricks and textiles.

Another industry, the summer tourism represents a 11 km long sandy beach on the Lido offers the district Sottomarina di Chioggia on the island of Borgo San Giovanni. With its elegant beach promenade, hotels, bars, nightclubs, restaurants and beach facilities the resort is the traditional home of the beach residents throughout the region to Padua.

Chioggia is (as of 2010 ) as the location for a neuzubauendes nuclear power plant in conversation. This is 30 km in a straight line from Venice. Numerous sites, including Austrian government, criticizing the project; also because of local earthquake threat. The plans for this have been postponed for a referendum against the Prime Minister Berlusconi after the nuclear accident in Fukushima by an estimated 10 years. (As of September 2011)

Others

The inhabitants Chioggiotti, in the older Roman form also Clodiensi call themselves. Several times a day a ferry commutes between Chioggia and Lido Island Pellestrina, from where you can take buses to Lido di Venezia to ferry from there to the vaporetto to Venice.

City and people served the Venetian writer Carlo Goldoni as a template for his play Le baruffe chiozzote to German Much Ado in Chiozza. The stage play written in the local dialect is the loud and tragicomic goings-on in the lagoon city of the 18th century. Under the direction of Giorgio Strehler this stage play is today well received by the expert audience.

Twinning

  • Greece Lamia, Greece, since 2007
  • France Saint- Tropez, France, since 2008

Sons and daughters of the town

Pictures of Chioggia

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