Replacing Venice in the Adriatic
Tourism and Italian irredentism, 1880–1936
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12924405 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maura Hametz (0009-0001-5090-3342, Old Dominion University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 107-121 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Tourism History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1755-182X • E-ISSN: 1755-1838 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1755182x.2014.897762 |
| OpenAlex | W2075891505 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This article examines the role of tourism in re-imagining the Venetian heritage of Istria and Dalmatia to cast the eastern Adriatic coastlands as Italian. It explores the development of eastern Adriatic tourism from the 1880s to 1930s, in the Habsburg monarchy and then the Italian state, with attention to the cultural factors associated with the medieval Republic of Venice and ethno-nationalist politics that shaped claims to Adriatic territory. Under the western tourist's gaze, remnants of Venetian architecture and culture associated with the mythologized ‘Most Serene Republic’ and ‘Queen of the Adriatic’ became the basis for casting the coastal environment as a pleasing, civilized Italian environment in contrast to the rocky, wild, and primitive Slavic and Balkan inlands. The article argues that Italian irredentist, nationalist, and Fascist efforts to tie the Istrian and Dalmatian coasts to medieval Venice, cast as a stepping stone on the path of continuous Italian control from Ancient Rome to the modern state, could not successfully ascribe Italianness to the coastland nor could the Adriatic Sea be accepted as Italian. For tourists, the eastern coastlands retained a multi-ethnic maritime flavor reflective of the variety of peoples that inhabited Adriatic shores
Ancient history · Archaeology · Ethnology · Geography · Monarchy · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · Tourism · Archaeological Research and Protection · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2022 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |