I visited a former fishing village for the first time!
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I finally spent a few days at the seaside in Caorle, a famous Italian seaside resort overlooking the Adriatic Sea.
Caorle is a typical seaside resort for couples and families, where there is no movida but a quieter and less chaotic type of holiday, made up of sea and lots of walking.
Here you can find all the references for locating it: https://w3w.co/podere.osservo.dipende
At the moment it is very popular with both Italians and many foreign tourists, including Germans and many Austrians, who always come here on holiday every year, also because it is a very well-equipped location in terms of accommodation and there are many campsites, but we will see photos at the end of the post.
It is a destination that I visit often, and some of my relatives had advised me to visit an important museum/village, which has only been enhanced a few years ago, a former fishing village, where a small nature trail has been built inside so that I can admire nature.
I arrived here from the village by bike, but you can also get there on foot. They are called the 'Casoni di Caorle', and are ancient dwellings that fishermen once used when they had to stay here and fish for several months, a small shelter.
Here I always leave you the location of the place: https://w3w.co/organi.elevata.bulloni
These are houses with a rectangular floor plan, where they were used by the fishermen to protect themselves from the rain and the cold, they are covered entirely with dried bamboo canes, and were built at this point where the entrance to the lagoon is located, here sea fishing could take place, but when entering the lagoon, freshwater fish were also caught.
The reed helped to drain the rainwater, but the roof has to be redone every now and then, although you can understand, construction of this kind was very cheap.
I was a bit unlucky because they are still closed, after the pandemic talk these houses were no longer open, however I read that inside there was usually a masonry fire, a cot where the fisherman would rest, and a table with some chairs for eating.
Unfortunately they were also used by hunters, in fact here you are close to an important reserve, where there is a lot of birdlife, fortunately in recent years this has been banned to protect the species, which in many cases come to breed here.
Part of these casoni are private and are now used for partying, I found them all closed, a pity I wanted to take some photos inside.
Some are also rented out for air bnb, but I didn't see any tourists.
I did see a few boats belonging to some fishermen, a job still practised in these parts, even if lately they are counting on their hands, it's hard to be a fisherman, then with the discourse that costs are always rising, it's hard to make ends meet.
Anyway, I recommend taking a tour here, it's a beautiful naturalistic place and you can breathe so much tranquillity.
Then I went back to Caorle, and I took a walk around the beautiful streets of the city, as you can see the bell tower is very characteristic, it's circular in shape and it hangs a bit like the tower of Pisa, this is because the ground here is very marshy and over the years it has begun to slope, I don't know if they have found a solution to this problem.
Even here in Caorle it happens to find many fishermen's boats preparing to set sail during the night.
Caorle is somewhat reminiscent of Venice, with these streets, and then it often happens that you find some artists making paintings or small handicrafts, an art that fortunately has not yet been lost.
In the end, for dinner I had a dish that is very common in these parts, namely spaghetti with clams, this mollusc that is very common and fished here, and then a small mixed fish fry, I particularly like small fish, all accompanied by a slice of polenta, which is made from cornmeal.
I, who love fish, like to come here to eat it, because I am sure to always find it fresh.
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Beautiful place where it's possible to fish something right? The site is looking very quiet and calmed, so anyone would like to come to chill out for a while. Thank you so much for sharing this content. Have a good weekend from my part.