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Chioggia

The “little Venice”

Chioggia

The town is situated on a small island at the southern entrance to the Lagoon of Venice.
Chioggia is a miniature version of Venice, with a few canals, chief among them the Canale Vena, and the characteristic narrow streets known as calli. Chioggia has several medieval churches, much reworked in the period of its greatest prosperity in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Until the 19th century, women in Chioggia wore an outfit based on an apron which could be raised to serve as a veil. Chioggia is also known for lace-making; like Pellestrina, but unlike Burano, this lace is made using bobbins.
Chioggia served Carlo Goldoni as the setting of his play Le baruffe chiozzotte, one of the classics of Italian literature: a baruffa was a loud brawl, and chiozzotto is the demonym for Chioggia.
Fishing is historically the livelihood of the port, and remains a significant economic sector, in fact Chioggia is the main fishing harbour of North Adriatic.

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