Today, however, I want to bring you a new post, about a place I visited yesterday, which fortunately was quite beautiful in the morning.
We know very well that Italy is full of fascinating places, and many times less known than some of the places that are more famous from a tourist point of view. In my opinion, this is the case of the city of Portogruaro, a small town of about 25,000 inhabitants, but which hides within it historical and artistic glimpses of a certain value.
Portogruaro is practically only 70 km from Venice, and there is also an easy motorway to reach it.
It is located in the eastern part of Veneto on the border with the Friuli Venezia Giulia region. In fact, if you walk through the streets of this small town, you can see that it has been influenced by both the Veneto and Friuli cultures.
Some say that there is a legend linked to the town of Portogruaro, but in reality I tried to do some research on the Internet and the history of this town is not certain. It is said that it was born from the ashes of an important Roman city that was Iulia concordia, which today is called concordia Sagittaria, in fact this city around the fifth century was devastated by the invasion of Attila's Huns, and those who survived this massacre transported the stones left over from this devastation further north, creating and merging the city of Portogruaro.
Certainly as you can see from the photos, the development of Portogruaro was impressive due to the fact that it was located near the river Lemene, which of course was an important communication route between the land and the coast and also an important communication with the city of Venice.
If you take a tour around the streets of Portogruaro, you can see that its period of greatest development and splendour was during the rule of the Republic of Venice in around 1420. During this period, many small bridges, as they are called in these parts, were built, which spanned the various rivers that had formed within the city.
Portogruaro, from my point of view, has a great deal of luck in terms of climate, in fact it seems that this area always enjoys a well-tempered climate, it is true that in the summer season here there is a lot of heat and humidity, but the winter is usually not harsh.
Currently in the city, there are several points of interest at the tourist level such as the harbour that is used by some fishing boats but also at the tourist level to take people around and show them the lagoon, there are still the mills that were used to grind wheat thanks to the water of the river, they are currently no longer active for this activity but they are being restored because they will probably become a beautiful museum.
See you in my next post and have a great day!
