Sant'Erasmo Bike Tour: Venice's Green Island & Local Tastes

Highlights

• Guided Bike Tour
• Local Product Tasting
• Unusual Venice View

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Sant'Erasmo

   Pass by

   We will reach the Sant'Erasmo island, also known as the "Venice's vegetable garden", thanks to a 30 minutes Vaporetto ride through the lagoon. Once a rural retreat for aristocrats and the main source of vegetable and fruit supplies for the Republic of Venice, the island is now a tourist-free refuge for Venetian families as well as a unique natural highlight of the Northern lagoon.

2. 2

   Isola di Sant'Erasmo

   Pass by

   Once landed, we will walk through a small road passing canals and ditches, towards the bike rental place, where we can get our countryside bikes.

3. 3

   Torre Massimiliana

   15min

   A circular fort facing the lagoon: The tour will start from a 19th century fort sometimes used for art exhibitions and surrounded by a stagnant moat, started by the Napoleonic regime and finished by the Austrian.

4. 4

   Isola di Sant'Erasmo

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   Biking through the island: We will bike along the lagoon, vegetables fields and saltmarshes admiring views of the San Nicolò harbour mouth at Lido island, Punta Sabbioni and passing through fields enriched by typical rural dwellings.

5. 5

   Isola di Sant'Erasmo

   30min

   Visit to a local honey producer: We will visit to a little family owned apiary producing local saltmarsh honey.

6. 6

   Stop 6

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   We will reach the northern part, facing across the water and mud banks towards the islands of Burano, whose coloured houses can just be distinguished, and San Francesco del Deserto, a monastery inhabited by Franciscan monks.

7. 7

   Stop 7

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   A church facing the lagoon: We will visit one of the few notable buildings on the island, the church, in front of the calm lagoon waters.

8. 8

   Sant'Erasmo

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   We will get back to Venice Fondamente Nove by water bus or you can decide to stay on the island of lunch or dinner in a restaurant with a terrace overlooking the lagoon.

Before you go

Location