From Chioggia, by boat, you can easily reach the famous islands of the Venice lagoon: Lido of Venice, Murano, Burano, Torcello, Pellestrina and the only and inimitable Venice. By public transportation (ACTV, line 11) Venice can be reached in one hour during the summer (direct line) or one hour and twenty during the other periods. […]

In Chioggia, the fish market is an ancient institution. The colorful market is located between the Piazza and the Vena canal, and is home to around thirty fishmongers, called mògnoli, which sell fish of all kinds. The main access to the market is given by the “Portale a Prisca”, sculpted by the Paduan Amleto Sartori. […]

Il Pescaturismo è un nuovo modo di intendere l’ospitalità turistica. Una Vacanza volta alla scoperta del mare e delle sue tradizioni alla ricerca delle radici più autentiche della laguna di Chioggia. Una giornata intensa ed interessante che si propone di far conoscere all’ospite le attività connesse al mondo della pesca per poi gustare, a bordo, […]

Towards the middle of the 16th century, many Venetian patrician families decided to invest the great wealth accumulated in trade with the East in the construction of large agricultural enterprises to be managed directly. It was then that the Corner, the Barbaro, the Badoer, the Emo, the Grimani, the Foscari, holders of economic and political […]

The delta of the Po: Earth torn from its river, which inexorably with its endless branches, its inlets, its wide curves, slowly degrading towards the sea. The majestic work of nature combined with the interventions of man who for centuries has contended the land to water, reclaiming marshy areas, creating dams everywhere that keep the […]

The Venetian Lagoon consists of shallow pools of water furrowed by natural and artificial canals, from lands that are periodically submerged by the tide and islands on which the inhabited centers rise. Located between the Adriatic Sea and the fertile Venetian plain, the Venice Lagoon, with its 550 km2 surface, is the largest wetland in […]

Nestled between the Adriatic, the lagoon and the Venetian countryside, the beach of Sottomarina, in ancient times, had to present itself as a thin strip of land, the southernmost coastal cordon of the lagoon. The conformation of this part underwent substantial changes especially in the century. XI, gradually passing from a “wilderness” vegetation to an […]

The Fort of San Felice di Chioggia is located on what was once an islet emerged, near the place where there was a wooden tower, to signal the entry into the lagoon. Recognized as the main strategic place of the city of Chioggia, the fort was built to protect lagoon security. The Castello della Luppa […]

Built overlooking the foundations of the Vena Canal, Palazzo Grassi is a beautiful eighteenth-century building, built with a mixture of different styles and characters. The design architect, commissioned by the Grassi family, was Andrea Tirali. According to some historians, the designer may have been Baldassarre Longhena. Probably the two artists collaborated. A century later the […]

The Museo Civico della Laguna Sud, also known as the Museo San Francesco fuori le Mura, is a place of interest located in Chioggia, in the province of Venice. Since 1997 its headquarters are located in the former Convent of St. Francis outside the Walls near Porta di Santa Maria and at the end of […]