Chioggia

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Chioggia
coat of arms
Chioggia (Italy)
Chioggia
Country Italy
region Veneto
Metropolitan city Venice  (VE)
Local name Cióxa
Coordinates 45 ° 13 '  N , 12 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 13 '2 "  N , 12 ° 16' 44"  E
height m slm
surface 185 km²
Residents 48,971 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 265 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 30015 (Chioggia), 30019 (Sottomarina), 30010 (S.Anna)
prefix 041
ISTAT number 027008
Popular name Chioggiotti or Clodiensi
Patron saint Felice and Fortunato
Website http://www.chioggia.org/
Aerial view of the old town, below the tower of the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta
The Riva Vena cuts through the old town
San Domenico
The Vigo Bridge at the end of the Vena Canal
The Sottomarina beach

Chioggia [ ˈkjɔddʒa ] ( Venetian. Cióxa ) is a seaport in the Italian region of Veneto . It belongs to the metropolitan city of Venice, formerly known as the provincial capital . Chioggia has 48,971 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) and an area of ​​185 km².

geography

The city, built on wooden stilts, is located in the south of the Venice lagoon . Because of its resemblance to the metropolitan city, it is nicknamed "Little Venice". Chioggia is connected to the mainland by a stone bridge. The Vena Canal divides the city and is crossed by nine bridges.

history

The origin of Chioggia lies in legend. It is reported that Antenor , Aquil and Clodio, fleeing from the Trojan War , settled on the upper Adriatic coast. Aquil founded Aquileia , Antenor Padua and Clodio Clodia . Pliny already described the port city of Edron, which was later called Fossa Clodia. The name Clodia changed over time to Cluza and Clugia, eventually changing to Chioggia. The city was first mentioned in Byzantine writings from the fifth century.

In the Middle Ages, Chioggia enjoyed town charter and in 1110 it was made a bishopric. During the so-called Chioggia War , the decisive clash between Venice and Genoa , the Genoese conquered the city in 1379 after an invasion from the sea, but were repulsed by Venice in 1380.

In 1797 Napoléon Bonaparte occupied Venice and thus Chioggia was also subject to French administration. In the Treaty of Campoformio in 1798, the city was transferred to Austria. Until 1814 the administration changed between the two occupying powers (or the Napoleonic "Republic of Italy"). From 1814 to 1866 Chioggia with Veneto was part of the Austrian Empire , then it came to Italy.

Attractions

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

From the Vigo bridge at the end of the main street you have a view over the lagoon to the islands of Pellestrina and the Lido di Venezia and as far as Venice itself. The Italian writer Curzio Malaparte called the Corso del Popolo , the main axis of the city, one single one great outdoor cafe. In the evening the street is closed to traffic, and on Thursdays the very extensive market takes place here, as does the weekday fish market.

economy

Chioggia's economic development can be traced back to late antiquity (cf. economic history of the Republic of Venice ). Fishing and vegetable growing ( radicchio rosso , also known as “la rosa di Chioggia”, and carrots) are the city's main industries; Chioggia has the largest fish market in Italy. There are steel , bricks produced and textiles.

Another branch of the economy is summer tourism. The Sottomarina di Chioggia district on the island of Borgo San Giovanni offers an 11 km long sandy beach . With its elegant beach promenade, hotels, bars, discos, restaurants and beach facilities, the seaside resort is the traditional beach for residents of the entire Padua region .

Chioggia is (as of 2010) under discussion as a location for a new nuclear power plant to be built. This is 30 km as the crow flies from Venice. Numerous sides, including Austrian government agencies, criticize the project, also because of the earthquake danger there. The plans for this have probably been postponed for 10 years after a referendum against Prime Minister Berlusconi after the nuclear accident in Fukushima. (As of September 2011)

Others

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

The city and its people served the Venetian writer Carlo Goldoni as a template for his play Le baruffe chiozzote , in German a lot of noise in Chiozza . The play, written in the local dialect, reproduces the loud and tragic-comic goings-on in the lagoon city of the 18th century. In the staging by Giorgio Strehler , this stage play is still well received by the connoisseur audience.

Town twinning

sons and daughters of the town

See also

literature

  • Sergio Perini: Chioggia nel Seicento. Il Leggio, 1996 (a nearly 1000-page description of the history of Chioggia in the 17th century).
  • Martina Lunardi: Pescatori di Chioggia , tesi di laurea, Università Ca 'Foscari, Venice 2017 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Chioggia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. gruene.at  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.gruene.at  
  3. www.wirtschaftsblatt.at March 17, 2011 - Protest against Berlusconi's nuclear plans ( Memento from January 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )