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Vista da via Dante Verso il mare

Vista da via Mameli Lungomare Marconi

semplice che caratterizza l’intera zona. to explain the importance of this place. Piazza The end of the 1970s marks the beginning of its
I nuovi condomini moderni sono inseriti in Guglielmo Marconi, in the heart of the bea- urban history, with the opportunity of turning
modo armonico e i locali hanno dato colore e chfront resort, stands in an area of the coast that the historic Grand Hotel Bagni Miramare into a
vitalità, nuova linfa a questa piazza che anche expands dramatically, almost endlessly. But its seafront apartment complex.
d’inverno è particolarmente animata, scelta story dates back to the past. In the 1980s, the resort underwent a deep tran-
come proscenio per Sand Nativity, il celebre In fact, in the early 1900s, the tourist city preci- sformation that continued over the next 30 years
presepe di sabbia ospitato nella tensostruttu- sely grew around the square, with the first beach with high-rise buildings and a futuristic ma-
ra che ogni anno accoglie migliaia di visitatori resort that showed the heliotherapeutic proper- ster plan that was partially enforced with the
nel periodo natalizio. ties of the beach, to the extent that a specific ho- construction of skyscrapers and new buildings
Non si può conoscere Jesolo se non si passa per spital was built not long after. It was 1927. erected to replace old apartments and hotels and
piazza Marconi: è qui che si scopre, davvero, il Jesolo leaves behind the ancient Equilium or the host residences and apartments.
suo cuore palpitante. rural Cavazuccherina, with the sweet and bu- The current aspect of the city dates back to reno-
colic connotations typical of the countryside, to vation works carried out in 2000, when a light
project itself into the future of a tourist city, whi- urban refurbishment helped keep the traditional
ch later became the Miami of the Upper Adriatic, simple design that characterizes the entire area.
still unfinished. The new modern apartment buildings are har-
HOW WE WERE The square, which received its name in 1938, moniously integrated and the shops and cafés
have added further colour and vibrance to this
structurally becomes the core of the seafront,
AND HOW WE ARE from which the streets to the main directions square, which is particularly lively even in win-
Piazza Marconi, branch off to the east (Pineta and Foce del Piave) ter, when it hosts Sand Nativity, the famous na-
and west, to the lighthouse. Connected to Piazza
tivity scene made of sand exhibited in a pavilion
the heart of Jesolo Drago along Via Mameli, it blooms like a fra- that welcomes every year thousands of visitors
grant flower, with its shops, cafés, the shouting of during the Christmas season.
The square is dedicated to Guglielmo Marco- the people. Piazza Marconi is connected with the You can’t understand the true nature of Jesolo if
ni, who won the Nobel Prize in physics and in- whole city, which starts precisely from here and you don’t visit Piazza Marconi: this is where the
vented wireless telegraphy, and this is enough covers an area of 15 kilometres in both directions. beating heart of the city lies.