A strip of land located between the lagoon and the sea, it is an island that protects Venice from storm surges, is home to the Venice Film Festival, with sandy beaches and Art Nouveau-style hotels.
In ancient times known as Lido Bovense or San Nicolò (but also Lido di Olivolo or Rialto or simply, Lio), it was limited to the south by the port of Malamocco, then buried (now the same name is given to the port of Alberoni) .
From the earliest times, in the northern part of the island stood the Benedictine abbey which later served to house the remains of San Nicolò, patron saint of sailors. Not far from the church, a small plot of land was assigned since 1389 by the Republic of Venice to the burial of the Jews (the cemetery, of considerable interest, is now restored and made open to visitors).
While Malamocco was one of the main centers of the Lagoon (but a terrible cataclysm, perhaps a tsunami, caused it to decline in the 12th century), the northern part was never very inhabited. Only in the seventeenth century was the development of a settlement around the new church of Santa Maria Elisabetta, but still in the mid-nineteenth century the island was a rural area planted with vegetable gardens.
Also for this reason it was much appreciated by poets and writers, who chose it as a destination or residence (remember George Gordon Byron and Thomas Mann).
Lido of Venice
Address: Venezia, Lido
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https://www.comune.venezia.it/Location inserted by
Stefano Vigolo