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Chioggia and nearby areasThe hotel is located near the beach, a few steps from the romantic Chioggia, a few kilometers from Venice and the wonderful starting point for trips to Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Ravenna, and the Venetian Villas..
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Chioggia, city of art
Chioggia
is a lively and bustling maritime town, which bleeds history from every
stone.
It has an extremely original layout up, cut into pieces by the canals and
sown together by bridges. Its characteristic narrow streets, known as calli,
are all perpendicular to the main square and are suggestive of the classic
image of a fishbone. For this reason, Chioggia is also known as Little
Venice.
Take a walk among its typical calli and bridges to admire the
undeniable charm and elegance of this town, with its eighteen century
palaces in typical Venetian style reflecting in the water of the canals or
the characteristic boats called "Bragozzi" with their multi-coloured
sails, the fish market, the celebrated Corso del Popolo, the Museums, the
impressive Churches and Monuments, Piazza Vigo with its spectacular
bridge. The suggestive atmosphere of Chioggia will transport you back to
the times of the doges and the Serenissima.
Do not miss the amazing Palio de La Marciliana that takes place every
summer that will make you travel back in time! In recent years, thanks to
the valorisation of its artistic and cultural patrimony, Chioggia has been
officially conferred the title of "City of art", definitely well
deserved for this enchanting and unique site.
The weekly marketplace
The weekly market takes place in Chioggia, along all of Corso del popolo, and is known in all of the Veneto area. It takes place every Thursday and in the dialect of Chioggia, it is known as: "el zioba". It is one of the biggest weekly markets in all of Veneto.
Painting
It is said that the great masters of the Venetian school of
painting, thriving since ancient times, would come to Chioggia to chose
their models. The traditional brawny and muscular figures depicted by
Tiziano Tintoretto and many others seem to testify to this fact although
there is no documentary evidence to support such assumption. Anyhow, we
must say that these "features" still exist among the inhabitants of
Chioggia today.
Many national and international painters took inspiration from this city,
where the typical calli and canals, the renowned Corso del Popolo,
the fish market, the bragozzi, the Refugium Peccatorum, the bridges and
monuments and its bustling everyday life represented, the perfect scenario
for their paintings. One of the first and most celebrated artists was
Rosalba Carriera, portraitist and painter of the first half of the 18th
century. Her family was native to Chioggia but she was born by pure chance
in Venezia. Aristide Naccari, another renowned painter of that time,
studied, illustrated and restored the most typical and characteristic
monuments of the city, obtaining various recognitions.
History also reminds us of the many Italian and foreign artists that found
inspiration in Chioggia and its people during the last century, such as
Leopoldo Robert, Emanuele Stökler (famous waterclourist), Ludovico
Passini, Luigi Schön, Van Haanen, F. Ruben, Taylor, Guglielmo Ciardi, the
Cecchini brothers , Silvio Rota, Guglielmo Stella, Raffaele Mainella,
Luigi Nono,Carloforti, Rosa Steffani, Fragiacomo, Maria
Malmignati, Mosè Bianchi,Filippo Cercanon Bezzi, Bazzoli,
Enrico Serra, Dall'Oca Bianca, EttoreTito, Leonardo Bazzaro,
E. Bosa, Pio Semeghini.
As recalled by Carlo Bullo in 1881, many young artists would come from
Germany, France, Holland, England and even from the far away United States
to spend long periods in Chioggia, where they would find inexhaustible
sources of inspiration for their studies and paintings.
Dill Nishet, Falembert, Edmondo de Pury, William Lorin, Alberto P.
Rjder, Otto Bacher, Olin Warner, Robert Ajton, Telbin, Holmes, Inghan,
Wondroffe Bradlej, just to mention some of these great artists. As of
today, a great number of paintings of Chioggia are scattered around the
world and have been exposed in international exhibitions (Wien, Paris and
Venice). Private and public collectors also own many. For this reason, the
paintings are often difficult to catalogue.
Taken from
CHIOGGIA ITINERARI STORICO-ARTISTICI
di Gianni Scarpa e Sergio Ravagnan
e with permissionAPT - Chioggia
Small train "Trenino" in Chioggia and Sottomarina
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