Chievo (4,500 inhabitants) is a

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Verona Verona ( , ; vec, Verona or ) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Northern Italy, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the largest city Comune, municipality in the region and the ...

located to the west of the city, around from the historic city centre, on the shores of the river

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. It is best known for its football team,

A.C. ChievoVerona Associazione Calcio ChievoVerona, commonly referred to as ChievoVerona or simply Chievo , is a former professional Italian football club named after and based in Chievo, a suburb of 4,500 inhabitants in Verona, Veneto, and owned by Paluani, ...

, which competes in the second tier of Italian professional football,

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History

The name came from the Latin ''"clivium mantici"'' which means "the hill of the magic wood". Pastoral and farming activities date back to pre-Roman Celtic settlers. Placed on the shores of the river

the early inhabitants established a port, some mills and a water-powered saw on the river. Pipin, son of Charles, gifted the entire zone to the monastery of St. Procolo, near S. Zeno in Verona. In the 12th century Chievo had a church, a hospital and a stronghold in which

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spent some nights. The Corte Bionde is the best preserved medieval building. Around 1450 the entire village was moved about nearer to the city where the climate was healthier and vegetation more gorgeous. The actual parish church with a reliquary was built at that time. In 1892 the ten church bells were cast, and are still rung today in the style of the

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Points of interest

*Forte Chievo:

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built between 1850 and 1852 by the

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as part of Verona's defensive system. *Villa Pellegrini Marioni Pullè: 17th–18th century

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; the walls of its estate fence the western side of Chievo's main square. Nowadays it is owned by INPS (Italian national social security institute) and in a state of disrepair. *Ponte diga del Chievo: dam and footbridge over the river Adige, built in the 1920s. 2014 giu Villa Pellegrini Marioni Pullè, Chievo, Verona, photo Paolo Villa panorama facade, Doric - Tuscan and Ionic order, porch, wings, pilaster strip, triangualar and circular tympanum, balcony, coat-of-arms.jpg, Façade of Villa Pellegrini Marioni Pullè, Chievo, June 2014 Diga Chievo e Adige.jpg, Diga del Chievo

References

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