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Dolo is a town and comune in the province of Venice, Veneto, Italy. It is connected by the SP26 provincial road and is one of the towns of the Riviera del Brenta.
The growth of the town of Dolo is due to the gradual downsizing of the maritime power of Venice which was historically oriented towards Dalmatia, the Aegean Sea and the Middle East, occurred concurrently with the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic expansion and the new opening of navigation routes to the Americas.
The resulting was the need to address inland its new commercial interests.
At the beginning of the fifteenth century, documents testify to the existence of a village which, developing, gave rise to the economic importance of Dolo, always linked to the construction of its water mills collecting the wheat from the nearby agricultural lands and then grinding the flour and embarking same into cargo boats pulled by horses along the banks of the Brenta Canal to the lagoon, from where they continued directly up to the Venice island settlement.
Drinking water, too, was carried from Dolo to the center of Venice by cargo boats with big barrels filled directly from springs of the little river Seriola.
The territory was affected by massive hydraulic works that led to the diversion of the main bed of the river Brenta through an artificial canal with new mouths along the southern sea approaches of the port of Chioggia, while just one part of the old Brenta still flows into the lagoon near the location of Fusina.
The purpose of these megalithic hydraulic works was primarily to prevent the progressive flooding of the lagoon by the fresh water of the rivers and thus maintaining a high degree of salinity necessary to make viable the navigation and the same existence of Venice.
Until 1405 the jurisdiction of Dolo was under Padua, and then passed definitely under the dominion of Venice.
A boat called the Burchiello transported Venetians noblemen directly to the Riviera sailing along the river Brenta, which was considered as a natural extension of the Grand Canal, to spend summer in their sumptuous villas.
The water level of the navigable river ways were controlled by a system of locks which are nowadays still visible in the center of Dolo, even if the evolution basin is now ground filled.
An old marble table is still shown nearby to show toll tariffs for the transit in the locks for each type of boats coming from or going to Padua.
Close to basin, there is a small shipyard, now dismissed, which was anciently used to repair and shelter the boats prior or after transiting the locks, while laboratories of caulk were housed all around.
The origin of the name of Dolo is quite uncertain and controverted.
One hypothesis asserts the name comes from the contraction of "Dandolo", surname of a noble Venetian family who gave a doge to the city of Venice and had properties here.
From old maps it appears that the town’s name was sometimes reported as “ Dollo “ which in archaic Italian language could also mean a tower which was probably demolished thereafter, unless it refers to church’s belfry which is the highest in the region of Veneto, just second to St. Mark’s belfry in Venice.
A lovely picture of the ancient locks of Dolo of the Venetian painter Canaletto is visible in a museum in London.
The Dolo is a mountain stream that rises on the slopes of Mount Cusna in the Reggio-Emilia province, of the Tuscany-Emilia Romagna Apennine Mountains. It is a tributary of the Secchia, and its length is about . The Dolo acts as a natural boundary between the provinces of Reggio Emilia and Modena.
About before entering the Secchia river, the Dragone mountain stream flows into the Dolo.
At the height of Fontanaluccia there is a dam that provides water for a hydroelectric power plant located downstream in Farneta.
file:Dolo briglia.jpg|Dolo river near Romanoro file:Dolo ponte.jpg|Dolo river seen from the bridge crossing to the nearby village of Morsiano
Category:Rivers of Italy Category:Rivers of Emilia-Romagna
Dolo may refer to:
- Dolo, a town in the province of Venice, northern Italy
- The Dolo, a river in the Reggio-Emilia province of Italy
- Dolo, Côtes-d'Armor, a town in France
- Dolo, Burkina Faso, a town in Burkina Faso
- Dolo, Ethiopia, a town in Ethiopia
- Steve Cherundolo, nicknamed "Dolo", association football player for the United States National Team and Hannover 96
- Dolo, San Jose, a barangay in Camarines Sur, Philippines
The Dolo was a French automobile advertised and exhibited during 1947 and 1948.
Usage examples of "dolo".
When I reached the Dolo, I went straight to the stables, and I myself saddled a horse which a postillion, to whom I gave a crown, pointed out to me as being excellent.
In Fusina I took a two-wheeled chaise, for I was so tired that I could not have performed the journey on horseback, and I reached the Dolo, where I was recognized and horses were refused me.
The first favourite was a black horse, long and low set, with four white legs, Dolo by name.
To tell the truth, although we patiently waited two long hours on Dolo church spire, when both I and my companion descended we were not in a position to solve either of these problems.
The town is situated on an eminence overlooking the Dolo, a tributary of the Argenton.
Before his death at the hands of the yellow man, the great warrior Balpa Dolo had described the cave to Kiree.
This Buyur site was nowhere near as vast as the one north and east of Dolo Village, where each local citizen dutifully took part in crews gleaning for items missed by the deconstructor spider.