Chioggia

American  

[kee-oh-jee-uh, kyawd-jah] / kiˈoʊ dʒi ə, ˈkyɔd dʒɑ /

noun

1. a city in NE Italy, on an island at the S end of the Lagoon of Venice.

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Example Sentences

The court heard that in a four-month period in 2015 when she did teach in Chioggia near Venice, students complained of her lack of preparedness, her failure to bring textbooks and her "random and improvised" way of marking.

From BBC

Then I learned about the candy cane variety — chioggia — and it was just a flat-out quest to find those.

From Washington Post

Tourism is booming in the Italian town of Chioggia, which has long lived in Venice’s shadow.

From New York Times

“We used to be the lagoon’s children of a lesser god and now we’re not,” jokes Teresa Bellemo, a Chioggia native who works in the publishing industry in Milan, but returns every summer.

From New York Times

But in the past few years, a new kind of tourist started showing up: “They weren’t just interested in the beach, they saw Chioggia as a città d’arte,” an art city, said Giuliano Boscolo Cegion, the head of the local hotel association.

From New York Times