Tourism and geography in Veneto

Great commercial center, in center position in the motorway and railway (to the intersection among the itinerary Turin-Trieste and the road of the Brennero) net, Verona (255.492 abs.) it primarily has a tertiary economic structure, but it is also the second Venetian industrial pole after Mestre-Marghera. They prevail the sectors agroalimentare, mechanic and typographic-editorial. The interporto in Verona (on an area of 2,2 million m2) is among the first ones of the European union for the traffic combined road-rail: in its directional center it meets for telematica question and offer of transport, that are capillarily sorted. According to, modest urban center is Legnago (26.152 abs.). The shore veronese of the Garda is an active tourist zone: Malcesine and Garda are the communes endowed with the more developed hotel receptive ability.

The provinces subalpine in Vicenza and Treviso are strong areas of the diffused industrial growth, favored by a dense net of small cities. Vicenza (107.481 abs.) it keeps on developing the traditional textile and handicraft activities and it is tertiary pole of a province whose income puts it to the second place in the region. Bassano del Grappa (39.192 abs.) it is the second city for demografic dimension and endowment of services. Arzignano, Valdagno, Schio and Thiene, also being all centers of services of populous districts, they primarily have an industrial economic base. Relatively modest are the tourist activities, climb on of it (Asiago) or thermal (Recoaro Terme).

Treviso (82.632 abs.), the more tertiary among the chief towns of province (74% of busy in the services and in the public administration), are highly known above all as center of an industry of the specialized fashion. Also the smaller cities are less industrialized of those of the Vicenza region: Vittorio Veneto (29.185 abs.) and Conegliano (35.536 abs.) above all the function of centers of services, Castelfranco and Montebelluna develop small industrial and tertiary cities. The lowland trevigiana and the low hill are privileged place of the "diffused factory", with industrial sheds disseminated in the rural communes, well served from a dense road net. To the provincial income it still gives a remarkable contribution a prosperous agriculture, while the tourism is marginal.

In the province montana of Belluno the tourism represents the hauling sector instead. The great tourist districts are the Ampezzano (Curtain, of international fame) and the Cadore (Auronzo, St. Vito). Feltre (19.720 abs.) it is predominantly tertiary historical city, but with some industrial presence. Belluno (35.497 abs.), suburb become city in the last one hundred years, has the functional profile of an administrative chief town, with over 70% of busy in the services and in the public administration.

Center area of the region, the province in Venice lengthens along the adriatic coast. The lagoon city - whose residents from about ten years have stopped of "to emigrate" on the dry land - it is world city of the cultural tourism. The city of the dry land, Mestre-Marghera, is center of port, road and railway traffic and industrial zone that has seen to decrease the levels of occupation (for the increase of the productivity) but not the volume of the metallurgical productions, chemical, vetrarie. The sum of the two cities in the amphibious commune in Venice reaches the 305.617 inhabitants.

Among Mestre, Treviso and Padua it widens to fan an urbanized region, with populous suburban communes as it Mira, Mirano, Mogliano Veneto. On the lagoon, also Chioggia (53.849 abs., already note to the Romans as Fossa Clodia) form an amphibious and composite commune, with the ancient fishing suburb and the horticultural and tourist suburb of Sottomarina. The oriental zone of the province in Venice has developed in the recent decades, on the coast, a bathing conurbation that actually extends it from Jesolo through Caorle and San Michele al Tagliamento to the common friulano of Lignano. In the inside San Donà (33.755 abs.) and Portogruaro (24.694 abs.) they develop the role of centers of agricultural and agricultural-industrial common services of the low irrigated lowland.

Southern Veneto has in Padua (213.656 abs.) the principal urban pole, center of the greatest regional university, commercial metropolis and destination of a cultural and religious tourism (Chapel of the Scrovegni, with the frescos of Giotto; Basilica of Sant'Antonio, sec. XIII). Historically, the city was englobed in the Venetian state and "compensated" with the role of only university center of the dominion (from 1221). In the 800 it repurchased an economic dynamism that did the principal of it commercial and banking center of Veneto. Not so influient is the role of the industrial activities, decentralized in the countries of the northern and oriental zones of the province and in small cities as Cittadella and Este. But from 1992 the project of a technological-scientific Park is in progress of realization, financed and envoy to stung by the consortium Padua Searches, to which participate the university, the CNR, the Chamber of commerce, the association industrial and some entrepreneurs. On an area of hundred hectares, along the manager for Venice, laboratories of search (for the experimentation, the use of new materials, the execution of tests and prototypes) and university institutes will be assembled. They will be to disposition of the enterprises collateral services, from the information on the forms of financing for the innovation to the share to the fetch programs and development community, to the courses of formation and qualification realized by the researchers that they work in the structure. In the province in Padua, Abano and Montegrotto Terme form a small tourist-thermal conurbation (26.000 abs.), with a very developped hotel receptive equipment.

The Polesine has radically transformed his own agrarian structures, today among the more mechanized and productived of the Padania. Rovigo (52.137 abs.) is the center of services with some industrial presence. The ancient city of Adria (21.130 abs.), thanks to the incentives for the depressed areas, is become a common semi-industrial.

From the voice Veneto, in Enciclopedia Geografica Garzanti, Milano, Garzanti, 1995, pp. 649-50.