The name comes from the Latin Cilia maris, seashore, and it was no metaphor: in antiquity Ceggia really did stand on the shore of the Adriatic, and only the silting up and later the land reclamations left it where it is now. The Via Annia passed through here, which the praetor Titus Annius Luscus had built in 153 BC and which can still be made out beneath via Colonne and via Anarè. The Roman bridge has stayed at the spot where it was built, and a funerary stele turned up in the nineteen-eighties because a farmer, breaking the ground in via Noghera, ran into it with his plough.
On the night between 8 and 9 November 1917 the town fell into Austrian hands, and in a few weeks the occupiers changed its geography: they diverted the course of the Piavon and turned it into a canal, and ran the railway tracks along the main street, so as to have goods yards where they wanted them. On 18 August 1918 a shell tore a hole in the dome of the church of San Vitale. Today the town is best known for its Carnevale dei Ragazzi: five companies of float-builders start work at the end of August, for three parades, one of them by night.
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