7 Sights in Chioggia, Italy (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Chioggia, Italy. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 7 sights are available in Chioggia, Italy.
Sightseeing Tours in Chioggia1. Chiesa di San Francesco
The church of San Francesco in Chioggia is a religious building overlooking the main square of the city. This church is also called San Francesco "old" or "inside the walls" to distinguish it from the other church of San Francesco, current Civic Museum, located 350 meters further south, beyond the Porta Di Santa Maria last remnant of the ancient city walls to the south.
2. Torre delle Bebbe
The Torre delle Bebbe and the Lido di Fossone are two archaeological sites located between the old borders of the territories of Venice and Padua. There was, from the origins of the Serenissima and until 1380, the year of the War of Chioggia against Genoa, a military border garrison, located south of the Venice Lagoon.
3. Chiesa San Martino Vescovo
The church of San Martino Bishop of Sottomarina, a hamlet of Chioggia is a place of worship consisting of two buildings, one eighteenth-century and the other inaugurated at the beginning of the twentieth century. Within the diocese of Chioggia, this is the mother church of the vicariate of Sottomarina.
4. Santa Caterina
The church of Santa Caterina is a religious building in Chioggia, Italy. Unlike the other churches in the center, overlooking the main square, it is inserted within the urban fabric of the city. It was populated by Cistercian nuns for four and a half centuries, then by Canossian nuns.
5. Museo Civico della Laguna Sud
The Civic Museum of the South Lagoon - also called Museum of San Francesco fuori le Mura, to distinguish it from the church of San Francesco located within the city limits - is an archaeological and ethnographic museum of Chioggia and one of the main in the area of the Venice lagoon.
6. Chiesa di San Domenico
The sanctuary of San Domenico, built on the homonymous island, bears witness to the presence of Dominican friars in the lagoon city of Chioggia since the end of the thirteenth century. The fourteenth-century Crucifix kept in it is much venerated by local citizens.
7. Chiesa dei Santi Pietro e Paolo
The Chiesa dei Santi Apostoli Pietro e Paolo, also called San Pieretto by the local population of Chioggia due to its small size, is located in Campo del Duomo on the east side, is a Catholic church located in Chioggia, in the province of Venice, Veneto, Italy.
Wikipedia: Chiesa dei Santi Apostoli Pietro e Paolo, Chioggia (EN)
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