Grado

Grado is a town and comune in the north-jap Italian place of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, placed on an island and adjacent peninsula of the Adriatic Sea between Venice and Trieste. Once in particular a fishing middle, nowadays it's far a famous traveller destination, acknowledged normally as L'Isola del Sole The Sunny Island, additionally famous because it is also a spa metropolis; collectively with Marano Lagunare, it's far the center of the Marano-Grado Lagoon, that is well-known for its uncontaminated nature.

Grado is the birthplace of Biagio Marin, a poet who sang approximately the island within the neighborhood Venetian dialect. In Roman times the metropolis, known as ad Aquae Gradatae, became first port for ships getting into the Natissa Natisone, headed upstream to Aquileia. During the overdue years of the Western Roman Empire many human beings fled from Aquileia to Grado to be able to find a more secure location, more covered from the invasions coming from the east.

In 452, Nicetas, Bishop of Aquileia, took shelter in brief at Grado; of the same duration is the earliest construction of Grado's first cathedral, the first church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, and the baptistery. Grado was the house base of the patriarchate's fleet. The seat of the patriarchate changed into transferred to Venice in 1451 via Pope Nicholas V. Reduced to a minor hamlet, Grado turned into sacked by the English, who burned the metropolis files in 1810 and by the French in 1812.