A little more of six thousands inhabitants on 26,61 sq. km of territory, 4 mt above sea level, Meolo rose near the stream having the same name, tributary of the Vallio, which flowed in the past between the more famous rivers Sile and Piave.

Once crossed by the Roman 'Via Annia' (131 b.C.), which connected it with Altino and Aquileia, it became thanks to its fertile soil, rich in woods, a favourite destination of the Venetian patrician families, who let build there during the years their Summer residences.
The town still keeps today several villas, bearing witness to the former magnificence.
They are real art treasures, well kept in the middle of the green charm of Meolo's landscape.
In this little centre built for people, the memory of the past is still kept alive, also through the 'Pavanello' Historical-Ethnographic Documentation Centre, which since many years works on the collection and cataloguing of various material - photographic particularly - about the history and population of the area between the rivers Sile and Piave during the 20th century.

Something noteworthy: in Meolo was born in 1926 Fulvio Roiter, who surely occupies a primary position in the Italian History of photography of last century, thanks to his matchless pictures of the city of Venice as well as of its Carnival, but above all thanks to his precious reportages in black and white about different Italian geographic areas.
He is an artist of visual memory and it is not an accident that he was born right in a town, which loves keeping its memories.