Quarto d'Altino is a town in the

Metropolitan City of Venice The Metropolitan City of Venice ( it, Città Metropolitana di Venezia) is a Metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city in the Veneto region, Italy. Its capital is the city of Venice. It replaced the Province of Venice and includes the city of ...

Veneto Veneto (, ; vec, Vèneto ) or Venetia is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about five million, ranking fourth in Italy. The region's capital is Venice while the biggest city is Verona. Veneto was part of the Roman Empire unt ...

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. SP41 provincial road goes through it. The name "Quarto D'Altino" is composed by the prefix "Quarto" because the town was a quarter of a mile from the

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Altinum Altinum (in Altino, a ''frazione'' of Quarto d'Altino) was an ancient town of the Veneti 15 km SE of modern Treviso, close to the mainland shore of the Lagoon of Venice. It was also close to the mouths of the rivers Dese, Zero and Sile. ...

Transportation

The town is served by the

Quarto d'Altino railway station Quarto d'Altino ( it, Stazione di Quarto d'Altino) is a railway station serving the town of Quarto d'Altino, in the region of Veneto, northern Italy. The station is located on the Venice–Trieste railway. The train services are operated by Tre ...

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