Caorle is a famous tourist goal at international level where to spend vacations enjoying the sea and the nature.
This small city, that conserves intact all the attractiveness of its marine district and its port, is to single one hour of Venice In the last decades, the city has lived a fast growth, mainly from the tourist point of view, that has transformed Caorle into a famous vacanciera locality.
Today the city counts on almost 200 hotels, nine campings and apartments of optimal level that are integrated perfectly with the rich natural atmosphere that characterizes the east coast.
The history and the art of Caorle without a doubt are represented by the millenarian Duomo and its magnificent cylindrical bell tower. The Duomo was constructed in 1038 and its inner conserve numerous works of art of great value. But the heart of Caorle is the Piazza Vescovado. This seat recently has been reconstructed duplicating its area with the extension of the stone pavement. You cannot be lost the rest of the past Roman of Caorle like for example the relic, discovered in 1992, that it has been lying for but of two thousand years in the Adriatic Sea: a loaded ship of still intact amphoras and that date from between centuries II and I a.C. Also you can visit the “Casoni” located in the lagoon that is structures pertaining to century II d.C. In these rustic houses objects of the time are still conserved.
The zone of the véneta coast to which this flood of marshy zones belongs Caorle and is indeed in the lagoon of Caorle where the origin of the city is located.
In spite of the urbanization, today the lagoon of Caorle occupies an ample zone in that gulls live, garcetas, common herons, grullas and fochas.
This lagoon very was appreciated by Ernest Hemingway who wrote their famous story: “To the other side of the river and between the trees” in which it describes the observation of this so special nature.
Finally, it reserves to an entertained stroll the “Alive Scogliera to you”, an artistic gallery outdoors where sculptures modeled with rocks of the coast can be admired. Every year in June, tens of originating artists worldwide are here to give an artistic form to rocks of this coast.