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CONCORDIA SAGITTARIA - Julia Concordia
The site was where the Romans founded the colony Julia Concordia shows traces of the fin from the tenth century BC, but especially between the ninth el'VIII sec. a.C. that the town put on protostorico off the edge of the lagoon, was developed with craft areas, witnessed by the presence of numerous waste furnace and the discovery of an underground furnace, for the production of ceramics. Is well documented, the processing of deer horn and bone meal to cattle, pigs and horses.
The town of Julia Concordia (Sagittaria is only an addition of the last century to commemorate the manufacture of arrows) was founded in 42 BC around during the second triumvirate, a reason which for centuries was in place the Roman penetration. The goals that led the triumvirate to found the city can be summed up in the need to provide accommodation to the veterans of the wars and to create defensive bastion in the eastern border, the intersection of two major roads: the Via Annia and route Postumia.
Concordia participated actively in the life of the Empire and was involved, from the third century AD, during the wars against the increasingly frequent and devastating barbarian invasions. In the middle of the fifth century. D.C. the Huns of Attila, after destroying Aquileia, laid siege to Concordia and Rasero ground. The heritage of Concordia was collected by the Church, now the only institution that can act as single point of reference social, civil and cultural work of mediation between culture and new classical Roman-barbarian. The ecclesial community, headed by his bishop, together with the Christian faith, he kept alive the historical-cultural identity of Concordia, also in the dramatic events of the barbarian invasions, in the social and political context of the wider Patriarchate of Aquileia. Christianity gradually spread to Concordia, fueled by frequent contacts with the East due to the trade and movement of military troops. Concordia by the Emperor Theodosius I issued two very important laws for the spread and consolidation of Christianity: the De fide testium and De apostatis, signifying the importance of the city's elected to stay and his court.
The richness of cultural and religious life of the early centuries of Christianity, which are the expression of two eminent figures such as Paul Monaco in the third century. el'esegeta Rufinus in the fourth century. gives historic tradition Concordiesi of the 72 martyrs killed during the persecution of Diocletian 304 AD
Concordia is currently a center of about ten thousand inhabitants, with the agricultural economy and artisan. Economic and social development began after the Second World War and was finally consolidated in the 70s of last century. A significant element for jobs in Concordia was the development of the seaside resort near the Adriatic coast, which has encouraged the phenomena of mass commuting. Each year, on the initiative of public and local groups, will play important cultural and folk events. The arrangement of the urban center of Concordia was accomplished with the completion of the square outside the cathedral, dedicated to Cardinal Celso Costantini, former pastor of Concordia at the beginning of'900 and tireless man of the church and culture that both worked for ransom history and tradition Concordiesi.
The municipal coat of arms consists of a shield sannitico modern silver crossed horizontally by a band of red undivided, to the left surrounded by an oak branch and to the right by a olive branch, and cross-linked by a tricolor ribbon, and surmounted by a crown of common signs of the city.
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