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Grado (Venetian: Gravo; Friulian: Grau; Slovene: Gradež; Latin: Gradus [3]) is a town and comune (municipality) of 8,064 residents [4] in the Regional decentralization entity of Gorizia in the north-eastern Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located on an island and adjacent peninsula of the Adriatic Sea between Venice and Trieste.
Interior of the Basilica of Sant'Eufemia, Grado.. This is a list of the Patriarchs of Grado (north-eastern Italy). [1] [2]The patriarchate came into being when the schismatic Patriarch of Aquileia, Paulinus (557–569), moved to Grado in the mid 6th century.
Cervignano-Aquileia-Grado (Italian: Stazione di Cervignano-Aquileia-Grado) is a railway station serving the town of Cervignano del Friuli, in the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, northern Italy. The station opened on 11 June 1894 and is located on the Venice–Trieste railway and Udine-Cervignano railway.
Barbana, the Marian sanctuary. Barbana is a small island located at the northern end of the Grado Lagoon, near Trieste in north-east Italy. It is the site of the Santuario di Barbana, an ancient Marian shrine, whose origins date back to 582 when Elia, the Patriarch of Aquileia, built a church near the hut of a hermit from Treviso named Barbanus.
Trovabene, Giordana, nd: Il salutatorium del vescovo Elia nella cattedrale di Grado : nuove considerazioni sul mosaico pavimentale, in Atti del XV colloquio dell'Associazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico, pp. 41–52; Guida rossa: Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Milano: Touring Club editore, 1999, pp. 505–508. ISBN 88-365-0007-2
Valle Cavanata was historically a fish farming area created in the 1920s, in the eastern part of the lagoon of Grado, that was embanked and provided with adjustable floodgates and thus transformed into a brackish area for fish farming. The water level in Valle Cavanata can be modified by the sluice gates; they allow the water to flood the area ...