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Venice: Lido Beach!

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Itineraries in Venice: the Lido Beach

Floating between the sea and the lagoon is the beautiful island of the Lido of Venice.

Thanks to the continual coming and going of ferries it is easy to get to even by car.

And there is nowhere like it in the world.

A few minutes away from Venice, kilometers of golden sands offer something for everyone, and, following careful environmental works, a sea that has grown cleaner year after year.

On the twelve kilometers of the length of the island one can admire golden beaches in which to relax on breezy summer days.

Venice's Lido is an 11-mile long sandbar, home to about 20,000 residents, greatly augmented by the (mainly Italian) tourists who move in every summer.

The Biennale Venice film festival takes place here every September.

At least half the Adriatic side of the island is sandy beach, much of which belongs to the various hotels that house the summer tourists.

These include the renowned Excelsior and the Des Bains, setting for Thomas Mann's classic novel Death in Venice.

These beaches are private, though towards the northern and southern ends of the island there are two enormous public beaches - the further from the town centre you walk, the more deserted those beaches becomes.

The Adriatic Sea is fairly clean and warm, ideal for children, with only the occasional jellyfish to disturb your swim.

The heart of the island is the Gran Viale Santa Maria Elisabetta, a wide street less than a mile long that leads from the lagoon on one side to the sea on the other.

It houses hotels, expensive shops, and tourist-centric restaurants.

At the lagoon end of the Gran Viale, you find the boats that take you to Venice (15'), the mainland (35'), the islands and the Marco Polo airport (60').

In 1202 at the beginning of the Fourth Crusade, it was used as a camp by tens of thousands of crusaders, who were blockaded there by the Venetians when they could not pay for the Venetian ships they needed for transport.

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