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The town is situated on a small island at the southern entrance to the Lagoon of Venice about 25 kilometres (16 miles) south of Venice (50 km (31 mi) by road)
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.
Chioggia and Sottomarina were not prominent in antiquity, although they are first mentioned in Pliny as the fossa Clodia. Local legend attributes this name to its founding by a Clodius, but the antiquity of this belief is not known.
The name of the town has been changing depending on the historical period, being Clodia, Cluza, Clugia, Chiozza and Chioggia. The most ancient documents naming Chioggia dates from the 6th century AD, when it was part of the Byzantine Empire. Chioggia was destroyed by the King Pippin of Italy in the 9th century, but rebuilt around a new industry based on salt pans. In the Middle Ages, Chioggia proper was known as Clugia major, whereas Clugia minor was a sand bar about 600 m further into the Adriatic. A free commune and an episcopal see from 1110, it had later an important role in the so-called War of Chioggia between Genoa and Venice, being conquered by Genoa in 1378 and finally by Venice in June 1380. Although the town remained largely autonomous, it was always thereafter subordinate to Venice. On 14 March 1381, Chioggia concluded an alliance with Zadar and Trogir against Venice, and finally Chioggia became better protected by Venice in 1412, because Šibenik became in 1412 the seat of the main customs office and the seat of the salt consumers office with a monopoly on the salt trade in Chioggia and on the whole Adriatic Sea.
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 (today more frequently chioggiotto in Italian, or cioxoto in Venetan) is the demonym for Chioggia. Goldoni took his setting seriously: the play is replete with lacemaking, fishermen, and other local color.
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The Arcade Building was built in 1898 as Jamestown's premier shopping destination, modeled on the Cleveland Arcade and Daniel Burnham's Rookery in Chicago. The building is right next to the railroad tracks and the old railroad station. Fires in the 1920s and 1950s shortened the portion to the right by two floors. The windows are blown out because of another fire that happened just three days before I visited. A quick response from local firefighters saved the building and the local community is trying to get state money to renovate the building as part of a downtown stabilization program.
This is part of a community project under construction. For now i made 9 buildings. My goal is to get 12 to 15. For now i will do lower house and some street ornaments and vehicles.
The house was originally owned by Akiva Weiss, chairman of the lottery committee and one of the prominent figures in the city’s founding.
In 1923-1924, a second floor was built. Akiva Weiss moved to the second floor and the first floor was converted for commercial use.
During the development process of the area which made it a commercial center, the building's first floor was changed many times. Windows and walls were cancelled, and the unique architectural decorations were removed as part of transforming the first floor to a commercial space. During that time, the modern architecture was typical for Tel Aviv, and every structure was built according to the Bauhaus style. The architectural Approach of the Bauhaus style is featured by omission of flamboyant and unnecessary decoration. Eventually, Akiva Weiss House was influenced by the Bauhaus style too, and this was one of the reasons for the removal of the house's unique decorations and a construction of a much more functional and blank facade instead of it. The round corner of the building in front of the streets junction was diagonally aligned.
The building was renovated in 2000.
As part of the renovation works, the first floor was transformed back to its original architectural form, the renovation was made by rare imported building materials.
The renovation architect: Amnon Bar-Or.
Connex South Central Class 421 (4CIG) 1741, photographed at Southampton with a London Victoria-Bournemouth service
28th April 1999
Marvel's, The Incredible Hulk film set - October/2007. They built this film set to look like Harlem, NY. Eastbound the sign reads Frederick Douglass Blvd/W 125. Westbound, the signs read Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd./W 125th.
Electrical Movements in the Dark - EMD presents "The King's Chair" - light art performance photography (LAPP), only one long exposure, no Photoshop compositing. Made at the "Königsstuhl" (King's Chair) in Rhens with our special orb tool, a Walther Pro Xl3000r and our self-modified Led Lenser M17R "Royal Blue" and X21 "Golden Amber".
I found this little cache deep in the woods not too far from where I live. Standing in the afternoon sunlight it just begged to be captured. The aged wood in the structure, had mellowed into many different hues, which I found fascinating. (*I might note that this is not an HDR image.)
Obviously this cache is no longer used to store furs or game, because if it was, it would have a piece of metal wrapped around each leg to keep out squirrels and other small critters.
(Repost of lost image)