Venice Trip Overview
Hop from island to island in the lagoon by bike: we will start from the Lido island, with its groomed shellac beaches, bronzed lifeguards and old ladies sipping Prosecco at the market, experiencing the Belle Epoque glamour passing in front of the beautiful hotels designed in the 20s in Art Noveau style. We will bike along the canals of Malamocco, a colorful fishing village that’s like a miniature version of Venice, cycle through a forest reserve to a lighthouse and relax like the locals do by heading to quiet Alberoni beach for a drink or a swim.
We will enjoy special views of Venice biking along the Pellestrina island and its fishing communities strung out the water’s edge in jaunty pastel colours.
The route will continue to Chioggia, another miniature of Venice and a fishing community.
You will decide if you prefer to bike back from the same route or to reach Venice by from the mainland, returining to Lido after a spectacular view from the ferry to Lido in front of St. Marks.
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Duration: 9 hours
Starts: Venice, Italy
Trip Category: Day Trips & Excursions >> Day Trips
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What to Expect When Visiting Venice, Veneto, Italy
Hop from island to island in the lagoon by bike: we will start from the Lido island, with its groomed shellac beaches, bronzed lifeguards and old ladies sipping Prosecco at the market, experiencing the Belle Epoque glamour passing in front of the beautiful hotels designed in the 20s in Art Noveau style. We will bike along the canals of Malamocco, a colorful fishing village that’s like a miniature version of Venice, cycle through a forest reserve to a lighthouse and relax like the locals do by heading to quiet Alberoni beach for a drink or a swim.
We will enjoy special views of Venice biking along the Pellestrina island and its fishing communities strung out the water’s edge in jaunty pastel colours.
The route will continue to Chioggia, another miniature of Venice and a fishing community.
You will decide if you prefer to bike back from the same route or to reach Venice by from the mainland, returining to Lido after a spectacular view from the ferry to Lido in front of St. Marks.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Lido di Venezia, Lido di Venezia, Veneto
We will meet at Santa Maria Elisabetta on Lido Island, where we will rent our bikes and start discovering Lido!
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Grande Albergo Ausonia Hungaria, Gran Viale Santa Maria Elisabetta 28, 30126 Lido di Venezia Italy
Hotel Ausonia & Hungaria (1913) is a remarkable example of luxury tourism dated back one century ago, thanks to the beautiful ceramic tiles on the main facade, recently renovated.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Hotel des Bains, Lungomare Marconi 17, Lido di Venezia Italy
A former luxury hotel, built in 1900 to attract wealthy tourists, it is remembered for Thomas Mann’s stay here in 1911 and the shooting of movies like “Death in Venice” by Visconti (1971) and the English Patient (1996).
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Ristorante Mostra Del Cinema, Lungomare Guglielmo Marconi, 1861, 30126 Lido VE, Italy
The oldest festival in the world is held in late August or early September here and screenings take place in the historic Palazzo del Cinema. The still running Art Nouveau Hotel Excelsior (1908) usually hosts producers and actors during the Festival.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Malamocco, Lido di Venezia Italy
From the beach we will enter this small fisherman village passing over Ponte di Borgo and explore the canals and calli or a less overwhelming lagoon town with just a few churches and a Gothic palazzo, a small miniature of Venice!
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Bagni Alberoni, Spiaggia Alberoni, Venice Italy
After few kilometers we will reach Alberoni beach, right at the western tip of Lido (opposite to San Nicolo). The natural beach of Alberoni has a maritime pine forest which slopes down to the Lido’s wildest most scenic beach. These enchanting dune fields are the stuff of Shelley’s poems and Byron’s early morning rides.
Often this beach is virtually deserted, except a plethora of marine birds and few kite surfers or windsurfers on windy days. We will make a break at this beach before hopping on a ferry to Pellestrina island
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Riserva Naturale Ca’ Roman, Pellestrina Italy
This natural protected area preserves, thanks to its relative isolation, one of the most intact environments of the entire Adriatic and boasts, despite its small size, an extraordinary wealth of fauna: it is located, in fact, on one of the most important migratory routes in Italy and many species of success the reserve in autumn and spring to rest and feed before resuming the journey.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Murazzi, Pellestrina Italy
The route will be wild as we will bike along the Murazzi, a scenic route following the Adriatic sea.
Murazzi is a remarkable 18th century engineering work: These massive sea walls represent a Herculean work from pre industrial age. Designed to keep high seas from crashing into the lagoon, they remain an effective breakwater even today. Murazzi are built with large blocks of Istrian stone and can be found also on the sister island of Lido.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Isola di Pellestrina, 30100, Pellestrina Italy
We will bike along this 7 km long island, stretching south of the Lido and repeating its long, sinuous shape. The island is home of 3 tight-knit fishing communities – San Pietro in Volta, Portosecco and Pellestrina, strung out along the water’s edge in jaunty pastel colours.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Chioggia, Chioggia, Veneto
Chioggia is a miniature version of Venice, and is often called “Little Venice”, with a few canals, chief among them the Canale Vena, and the characteristic narrow streets known as calli. Chioggia has several medieval churches, much reworked in the period of its greatest prosperity in the 16th and 17th centuries.
It is also a lively fihing community: what a great place to taste some fresh fish!
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Piove di Sacco, Piove di Sacco, Province of Padua, Veneto
After a well deserved lunch brunch you will decide how to reach Lido back:
One option will be to bike backthrough the same route, enjoying sunset views on the way back along the lagoon.
Alternatively we can bike further along the lagoon and countryside up to Piove di Sacco and from there shorten the route taking the train to Mestre or Venice railway station.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Ponte della Liberta, Strada Regionale 11 Padana Superiore – Via della Liberta, Venice Italy
If you will decide to get off at Mestre, we will bike 10 km along the bridge connecting the historical centre of the city of Venice to the mainland up to Tronchetto island, where a ferry to Lido will be waiting for us.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Ferry Boat Lido Venezia, Laguna Veneta, Città Metropolitana di Venezia, 30126 Venezia VE, Italy
We will cross Venice with the ferry passing in front of a spectacular view on St. Mark’s and Giudecca canal and we will reach Lido back returning our bikes
Duration: 1 hour
