Also known in the past as sinus, inlet or gulf, the Adriatic is the maritime corridor that united Europe and the Levant for over a millennium. The Serenissima Republic of Venice established itself as a commercial superpower by expanding its relations with Asia and the Middle East.

Today, the Gulf of Venice and in general the North Adriatic area could play a strategic role again in the new world order thanks to China’s plan to move most of the goods from the polluting large merchant ships that transit the Suez Canal to the new Silk Road to connect over seventy countries by land to the port of Trieste. Rather than a new scenario, it would be a return to being the eastern gateway that the Adriatic had been since the time of Marco Polo.