This is the best time to see the Lido, the beach season is over (the beach is still beautiful though..), the movie festival and all it's mess is gone.
Rent a bicycle right out of the boat that takes you across from Venice and start pedaling down the main street and then take right and go along the boulevard (Lungomare Marconi), you'll meet a couple of Grand Hotels and once the street turns 90 degrees on the right, don't turn and just go straight up on the Murazzi...here you will be able to ride a few kilometers off the traffic in a beautiful path right over the long line of rocks that protect the island from the tides.
This path will end up at the beach of Alberoni, a long and wide free beach, which is also a protected area where one can see some of the most beautiful birds of the Venetian Lagoon.
The beach ends up with the long pier where you can see the works on the huge barriers that should protect Venice from the hi tides in the future.
The Lido is the green part of Venice and the most populated district, there a few good restaurants ( Andri, La Favorita, Ai Murazzi...) nice shops and 12 km of beaches where venetians spend their time during the summer.
On the way back from Alberoni stop at Malamocco, an old venetian village where the first populations settled before starting building up Venice.
Here you have one of the most beautiful sight of the lagoon and a couple of great small trattoria:Da Mauro and Scarso.
Rent a bicycle right out of the boat that takes you across from Venice and start pedaling down the main street and then take right and go along the boulevard (Lungomare Marconi), you'll meet a couple of Grand Hotels and once the street turns 90 degrees on the right, don't turn and just go straight up on the Murazzi...here you will be able to ride a few kilometers off the traffic in a beautiful path right over the long line of rocks that protect the island from the tides.
This path will end up at the beach of Alberoni, a long and wide free beach, which is also a protected area where one can see some of the most beautiful birds of the Venetian Lagoon.
The beach ends up with the long pier where you can see the works on the huge barriers that should protect Venice from the hi tides in the future.
The Lido is the green part of Venice and the most populated district, there a few good restaurants ( Andri, La Favorita, Ai Murazzi...) nice shops and 12 km of beaches where venetians spend their time during the summer.
On the way back from Alberoni stop at Malamocco, an old venetian village where the first populations settled before starting building up Venice.
Here you have one of the most beautiful sight of the lagoon and a couple of great small trattoria:Da Mauro and Scarso.
