The East Gate of Venice
The roman remains!
The eastern hinterland of Venice, which has been given the name "Gate East", consists of the areas of:
The roads crossing the eastern gate of Venice seem follow the original grid of the Roman Empire. Is for this witch Venice that the archaeological heritage of the old you divided among the villages that make up the East Gate of the city: once commercially strategic territory for the famous "Via Annia" and "Via Claudia Augusta" that connected Rome witch the major cities in the peninsula. With this background the territory of East Gate favored the establishment of community paleovenete since the fifth century BC.
By car is easy to reach the first country of East Gate, Marcon, from Mestre onto the ring road in the direction Quarto d'Altino. This is a conurbation continues expansion to Marcon, surrounded by landscapes of the countryside and crossed by rivers Dese and Zero. Is the commercial area developed in the last decade to have increased gradually the density of inhabitants: stores, businesses artisans, shops and nearby airport and highway are a set of attractions increasingly effective. Before rehabilitation of the sixteenth century "Marconio", the ancient original name of "insediamento paleoveneto" of Marcon, was a set of woods marshes and uninhabitable. It was the Napoleonic rule to proclaim independent town in 1807. The history of this community was, however, blurred from fire that during the war of liberation destroyed the town hall and its archive, depriving the Marcon his recent memory.
A few kilometres away the agricultural village of Quarto Altino faces of the Venice lagoon leaving caress the flow of Sile. Here the fraction of Altino testifies to the existence of an ancient Roman city that stood south of urban. And one of the most interesting resources Venetian cultural territory, a goal of the first archeological relief. From the fifth century community the "paleoveneta" Altino entered be part of the Roman possessions, but in the next century its inhabitants were forced to flee to escape to anger the Huns and Lombards invaders. From here began the story of Venezia: when fear led residents to Altino refuge in the islands of the lagoon and achieve the first piles, when in a few decades was built from scratch and the first last city on history. The sign left by ancestors of the Venetians, "altiniani", is left by the remains archaeological the first century BC present for National Archaeological Museum. Remains coming mostly from necropolis. The area of excavations outside the building permits note also remains of roads and buildings Romanesque. Another handful of kilometres walk us to deliver fraction of Meolo, comfortably placed on the prosperity of a alluvial hill, between the passing of the river Sile on the one hand and Piave River on the other. Among the countries of East Port Meolo boasts the most ancient origins, the testimony of the findings archaeological remains dating back to the Bronze Age. The fraction must but its current structure the influence of the first Roman centuries BC.
Not far from Meolo, location Musile di Piave joined a Rome time to Aquileia thanks to passage of Via Annia still place of archaeological finds as amphorae, glass and Roman objects. The channel Fossetta was built in 1483 for connect more quickly Musile in Venice, making it even more accessible to its East Gate. Only in the Napoleonic age fraction became autonomous. During the Great War was razed to the ground and had to wait for the reconstruction of the first for post-war rise in neo-Gothic style forms.
