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What's on the Other Side of Adriatic Sea

Costanza Tonti, our Eurasmus+ trainee,  told us about the area  where she is from.  She lives in Italy near the city of Ancona, which is located  exactally opposite the Croatian city of Zadar, if you travell across the Adriatic Sea. One can say that we are neighbours. Throughout history, Ancona was tied to the Croatian coast, so that Croatians had given it the name ''Jakin''. Today, ships from Zadar and Split sail to and from Ancona daily.
 


I was born in Ancona, a town located on the coast of Adriatic Sea. I have always  spent my life in Falconara Marittima, a small town immediately next to Ancona.  Falconara M. is quite important, as it hosts the Regional Airport Raffaello Sanzio:  many tourists from all over the world can come and enjoy our place, especially in the Summer time. Tourists mainly come from Germany, France, Scandinavian countries and USA. In the winter it is not so fun to live in this beautiful place by the sea, but it can be interesting, as there are many cultural events, like exhibitions, shows and spectacles.

There are different kinds of cultural events: there are art exhibitions, with paintings of emergent artists or of renowned and famous artists. In the period of Advent, we host Christmas street markets, while in the springtime we enjoy three days of French street markets in the last week of March, experiencing different tastes and traditional crafts. In the Summer period you can enjoy the sea, as it offers such a wonderful panorama, blending sea and hills: the Monte Conero (Mount Conero) is part of some beaches, so the sea and the mount are visible at the same time. The nightlife during the Summer is mostly on the beaches, as there are many bars, restaurants, chalets, clubs and discos opened just for the summer months.



This is what my place looks like, and I have briefly told you about which local activities you can enjoy in your free time. In the everyday life, people don’t enjoy these activities unfortunately, as the most of them work all day long. People usually have free time on Sunday, so at this time they can stay with their families and go around to the near towns that surround Falconara. In the afternoons, after  school, children usually play in the parks, while boys and girls walk around the town, hanging around, doing basically nothing and sometimes, disturbing people, like all kids do!

It is a quiet area, even if in the last years, many foreigners came in this area, and unfortunately,  most of them usually create some trouble and bring diseases. It was a pretty good place before all of that, but anyway, like every town in Italy we try to give them a better life doing the best we can, sharing our place, resources and culture.

I suggest you to come to visit my place in summer, to enjoy the sea, and culture.



 


Costanza Tonti




This is the harbour in Ancona. You can see the Croatian ship ''Jadrolinija'' which sails to and from Ancona daily.


These are trade routes from Ancona in the 16th century.


This is the marble Arch of the roman emperor Trajan, 18 m high, erected in 114/115 as an entrance to the causeway atop the harbour wall in honour of the emperor who had made the harbour, is one of the finest Roman monuments in the Marche. Most of its original bronze enrichments have disappeared. It stands on a high podium approached by a wide flight of steps. The archway, only 3 m wide, is flanked by pairs of fluted Corinthian columns on pedestals. An attic bears inscriptions. The format is that of the Arch of Titus in Rome, but made taller, so that the bronze figures surmounting it, of Trajan, his wife Plotina and sister Marciana, would figure as a landmark for ships approaching Rome's greatest Adriatic port. (Wikipedia)


Loggia dei Mercanti, accompaning it are the works of Giorgio da Sebenico.

Throughout history, many cultural and other ties are noted between  Italy and Croatian cities on the Adriatic coast. In the early middle-ages (7th century), many Croats travelled to southern Italy and to Ancona to partake in the Byzantine wars against Langobards.
In the time of the Turkish encroachment,  many refrugees from Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina fled their homeland and settled in the area around Ancona. Many of the people from southern Croatian and Bay of Kotor work in the area of business  and trade.
The Croatian Brotherhood (Universitas Sclavorum) also worked in Ancona. At the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th centuries, Giorgio da Sebenico was creating  his works in Ancona (Loggia dei Mercanti - 1451.,  S. Francesco alle Scale Church - 1454. and  S. Agostino,  Palazzo Benincasa palace and  Palazzo del Senato palace), as was Ivan Duknović  (Francisian Church, tombstones). In  the 17th and 18th centuries,  many Croatian writers printed their books in Ancona (Ilije Bunića Vučića, Ivana Ančića and others.). (Wikipedia)

During the exodus after the Second World War, many Italians fled from Dalmatia, Istria and Kvarner Gulf  and emmigrated  to Ancona in Italy.
 



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