Bike tour with honey and artichockes on Sant’Erasmo island
Bike tour with honey and artichockes on Sant’Erasmo island
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Let's bike through the "Orto di Venezia" (Venice's "vegetable garden"), through artichokes fields and farms, admiring the Venice skyline from a very unusual view and tasting the unique honey produced only on this island.
Bike along the island banks and fields and enjoy a rare view of Venice from an unusual spot. Experience the unique natural beauty of the island, appreciating the relaxed and traditional lifestyle of its few inhabitants. In fact, although being the largest island of the lagoon, Sant’Erasmo is populated by only 700 people, the majority of whom farm their own lands producing amazing fruits and vegetables.
One of most interesting crops is the typical purple-hued artichokes, a slow food ® presidium “Carciofo Violetto di Sant'Erasmo”. Another typical activity in the island is beekeeping: bees enjoy the amazing variety of flowers growing on the salty soil, and they produce a unique kind of honey which you will be able to taste.
While biking you will appreciate the variety of crops grown by local farmers as well as beautiful wild landscapes while spotting the belfries of Venice from afar.
Itinerary
Sant'Erasmo(Pass by)
Admission Ticket FreeWe 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.Isola di Sant'Erasmo(Pass by)
Admission Ticket FreeOnce landed, we will walk through a small road passing canals and ditches, towards the bike rental place, where we can get our countryside bikes.Torre Massimiliana
15 minsAdmission Ticket FreeA 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.Isola di Sant'Erasmo(Pass by)
Admission Ticket FreeBiking 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.Isola di Sant'Erasmo
30 minsAdmission Ticket FreeVisit to a local honey producer: We will visit to a little family owned apiary producing local saltmarsh honey.Ridotto di Sant'Erasmo(Pass by)
Admission Ticket FreeWe 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.Sant'Erasmo Chiesa(Pass by)
Admission Ticket FreeA 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.Sant'Erasmo(Pass by)
Admission Ticket FreeWe 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.
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[deTour]ist - Valerio Coppo: Tour Guide. Take a detour in Venice, be a detourist!
USD 140.11
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