Jesolo

Jesolo
Country	Italy
region	Veneto
Metropolitan city	Venice  (VE)
Local name	Jèxoło
Coordinates	45 ° 32 '  N , 12 ° 39'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 32 '0 "  N , 12 ° 39' 0"  E
height	2  m slm
surface	95 km²
Residents	26,529 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	279 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	30016, 30017
prefix	0421
ISTAT number	027019
Popular name	Jesolani
Patron saint	John the Baptist
Website	Jesolo
Center of Jesolo

Jesolo [ ˈjɛːzolo ] is a city with 26,529 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) on the Italian Adriatic Sea in the metropolitan city of Venice , Veneto region , about 16 kilometers northeast of Venice .

Jesolo has 5.6 million tourists a year and ranks 8th among tourist destinations in Italy.

history

From the late Roman Empire to the Middle Ages

Lido di Jesolo

Today's Jesolo was founded under the name Equilium at the time of the Roman Empire as a vicus (village) on an island near the mouth of the Piave - in the 4th century at the latest. On the long waterway from Ravenna it was one of the numerous stages within the lagoon - archaeologically detectable in a mansio - where the merchant ships stopped, especially in winter, to protect themselves from the strong winds (the bora) and the sea storms. Fishing, farming, animal husbandry, but also a certain specialization in metalworking, as well as in that of bones and horns characterize the local economy.

After the fall of the Roman Empire, the town formed its own empire with other cities in the Upper Adriatic, with Jesolo and Civitas Nova ( Eraclea ) as the capital, archaeologically characterized by increased settlement activity and land reclamation in Jesolo. However, as of 2018, the core of the settlement has not yet been discovered. In any case, the nearby area was organized completely differently, and wooden structures were built to reclaim land. In the 7th century the single-nave cathedral with its mosaics and a cemetery were built. According to the Venetian tradition, the Doge Paulicius became the first regent in 697 . In the centuries that followed, Jesolo experienced its first heyday, which was mainly due to trade, river navigation and salt production. A room with an apse existed as early as the 5th century, i.e. before the construction of the cathedral, the ruins of which have been researched for a long time.

Jesolo became a bishopric in the 9th century . The diocese was abolished in 1466 and incorporated into the Patriarchate of Venice .

Equilium had to deal with numerous floods from the Piave . Like all other northern Italian rivers at that time, the Piave often moved its bed, which had a dramatic impact on the city's residents. In the following years, sediment deposits from the Piave made port operations more and more difficult and the land route easier to reach. As a result, the Hungarians might invade Equilium in 900. Gradually, however, Jesolo lost its importance again, as parts of the population emigrated to Venice.

New town center

From the 15th century a new town center developed at the intersection that the river and the canal formed. The name of the Zucharin family, who were entrusted with looking after the canal traffic, became the new place name: Cavazucharina , "Canal of the Zucharins".

In the 17th century, as part of the Venetian river diversions, the Piave was also relocated to a new bed. Since then it no longer flows through Jesolo, but eastwards and flows into the Adriatic at Cortellazzo, while the Sile flows into the Adriatic over the old river bed, which is still called Piave Vecchia (old Piave) today . Since then a canal has connected the two rivers.

20th century

During the First World War, Cavazuccherina was the scene of battles between the Italian and Austro-Hungarian armies.

In the 20th century the church of Santa Maria Assunta was destroyed. In 1930 the place got its old name back Jesolo . Around the same time, tourism began to flourish again. The first bathing establishment opened near Piazza Marconi. In 1934 there were already numerous villas and hotels.

In keeping with the character of an intensively used seaside resort, the city center and the beach area have been built on with ever higher hotel and residential buildings since the 1960s. A building planning campaign was called Jesolo City Beach 2012 . The campaign included the redesign of streets and squares as well as the improvement of the beaches and their tourist buildings.

structure

Jesolo population development

Jesolo is divided into two areas: Jesolo Paese , about two kilometers from the beach, and the now more important Lido di Jesolo on the Venice lagoon .

Lido di Jesolo extends between the Sile and Piave rivers . The former fishing village of Cortellazzo is located at the mouth of the Piave. There is a lighthouse at the mouth of the Siles. Behind it extends the Litorale del Cavallino with the municipality of Cavallino-Treporti between the lagoon and the sea . From there there are boat connections to Venice.

Lido di Jesolo consists of several parts:

• Faro is at the mouth of the Sile.
• Centro Ovest is the western city center, in the narrower sense also the center of Lido di Jesolo.
• Centro Est is the smaller, eastern city center.
• Pineta has a pine forest and several campsites.
• Cortellazzo at the mouth of the Piave.

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Lido di Jesolo hotel front

Piazzetta Casa Bianca

On the municipal boundary between Jesolo and Eraclea lies the Laguna del Mort , a lagoon surrounded on all sides by dunes and pine trees, which is a popular habitat for birds.

Culture and sights

lighthouse

Lighthouse on the beach of Lido Di Jesolo

The Jesolo lighthouse is 48 meters high and was built between 1948 and 1950 on the site of the old lighthouse from 1840. Today it shapes the skyline of Jesolo at the mouth of the Sile on the coast of Lido di Jesolo. Although it is located in the municipality of Cavallino-Treporti on the western bank of the Sile, it is called "Jesolo Lighthouse".

Archaeological sites

• Archaeological area in the north of Jesolo with remains of walls from Roman times
• Torre Caligo
• Santa Maria Assunta Church

Museums, libraries and galleries

• municipal natural history museum
• Aquarium and Reptilarium
• Military Museum "Vidotto"

Amusement parks

• Aqualandia , water amusement park
• Sea life

Economy and Infrastructure

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View over the beach of Lido di Jesolo, 2018

tourism

Jesolo's economic base is tourism. In its heyday, Jesolo had up to six million visitors a year, in recent years this number has dropped to around 5.3 million annually. There are numerous campsites and hotels in all price ranges along the south side of the lagoon.

traffic

Two provincial roads lead to Jesolo: the SP 43 Portegrandi – Jesolo and the SP 42 Jesolana San Michele al Tagliamento – Jesolo. The A4 motorway is around 20 kilometers away. The closest train station is San Donà di Piave . The closest international airport is Venice Airport . Treviso Airport is also nearby .

In Jesolo there is a bus station with regular connections to Venice. Local buses run u. a. also to Punta Sabbioni , where there is a connection to the Venice vaporetti system .

politics

coat of arms

Red dragon on a blue background.

Town twinning

Since April 28, 2006, Jesolo and Velden ( Carinthia ) have been linked by a town twinning.

Web links

Commons : Jesolo  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Community website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ↑ I PRIMI 50 COMUNI ITALIANI PER NUMERO DI PRESENZE TURISTICHE , accessed on July 19, 2019
3. ↑ Anita Granzo: Il contesto ambientale / Environmental context , in: Sauro Gelichi , Silvia Cadamuro, Alessandra Cianciosi (eds.): In limine. Storie di una comunità ai margini della laguna , All'Insegna del Giglio, 2018, pp. 14–16, here: p. 15.
4. ↑ Alessandra Cianciosi: Il contesto storico-insediativo / Historical-urban context , in: Sauro Gelichi, Silvia Cadamuro, Alessandra Cianciosi (eds.): In limine. Storie di una comunità ai margini della laguna , All'Insegna del Giglio, 2018, pp. 21-27.
5. ^ Catholic-hierarchy.org