Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta - Mogliano Veneto

Mogliano Veneto ( vec, Mogian ) is a town and ''

comune The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces (''province''). The can also ...

'' in the

province of Treviso The Province of Treviso ('' it, Provincia di Treviso'') is a province in the Veneto region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Treviso. The province is surrounded by Belluno in the north, Vicenza in the west, Padua in southwest, Venice in the so ...

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, northern

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...

, located halfway between Mestre (

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The isla ...

) and

Treviso Treviso ( , ; vec, Trevixo) is a city and '' comune'' in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 84,669 inhabitants (as of September 2017). Some 3,000 live within the Ven ...

Culture

Mogliano is well known for the Medieval festival, which takes place in September of every year, as well as for the Christmas market which takes place from 1–10 December of every year with market stalls being set up in Piazza Pio X by cottage industries from as far away as

Perugia Perugia (, , ; lat, Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber, and of the province of Perugia. The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and pa ...

Transport

Mogliano is cut in two by a busy street, known as ''Terraglio'', a historical road linking Treviso and Mestre/Venice.

Mogliano Veneto railway station The station of Mogliano Veneto ( it, Stazione di Mogliano Veneto) is a railway station serving the town of Mogliano Veneto, in the region of Veneto, northern Italy. The station opened in 1851 and is located on the Venice–Udine railway. The tra ...

is on the busy

Venice–Udine railway The Venice–Udine railway is an Italian railway line connecting Venice, in Veneto, with Udine, in Friuli Venezia Giulia. It follows the same route as state highway 13 (SS 13, "Pontebbana"). The railway infrastructure is managed by the Rete Ferro ...

and, like Mestre, serves as a dormitory town for people working in the surrounding industrial areas. Train services operate to

Udine Udine ( , ; fur, Udin; la, Utinum) is a city and ''comune'' in north-eastern Italy, in the middle of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic Sea and the Alps (''Alpi Carniche''). Its population was 100,514 in 2012, 176,000 with t ...

and

Trieste Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into prov ...

Twin towns

Ricadi Ricadi ( grc, Ρηγάδιον, translit=Rigádion) is a small rural town, as well as a municipality, located along the Tyrrhenian coast, in the province of Vibo Valentia, in the Italian region of Calabria. Geography Boundaries The municipalit ...

, Italy * Mogliano, Italy *

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, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Sports

F.C. Union Pro Mogliano-Preganziol A.S.D. is the Football in Italy, Italian football team of the city and of Preganziol and was founded in 2012 after the merge of ''A.S.D. Pro Mogliano Calcio'' (founded in 1928) and ''ASD Union Preganziol'' (founded in 1962). Currently it plays in Italy's Serie D after the promotion from Eccellenza Veneto Girone B in the 2013–14 season. Its home ground is ''Stadio Comunale'' with 2,300 seats of the city. The team's colors are white and blue. The presidents are Maurizio Michielan and Marco Gaiba. The manager is Francesco Feltrin.

References

Cities and towns in Veneto {{Veneto-geo-stub