subject: Venice: the lagoon and its islands [print this page] The Venetian Lagoon is the enclosed bay of the Adriatic Sea in which the city of Venice is situated. Its name in the Venetian language, "Laguna Veneta" cognate of Latin lacus, "lake" has provided the international name for an enclosed, shallow embayment of saltwater, a lagoon.
If you have an extra day to hand, why don't you visit the lagoon islands?
In the town of Venice, near the historic city center, there is a peculiar place formed by many islands, located in the large Venetian lagoon. They are very different in character and if you stay in Venice more than a day you can visit them. The lagoon is a single island: it is a sort of cluster of small and large, joined and separated "water sisters".
Thanks to daily tours that, by ferryboat, links the city center to the surrounding islands, you can visit many typical Venetian attractives.
In the north lagoon you can visit the islands of Murano andvenice Burano, with their traditions of glass, the "vegetable gardens of the Serenissima", the island of Sant' Erasmo and Vignole, up to places with monuments that represent the origins of the Venetian Republic as the island of Torcello.
Instead in the south lagoon you can discover the island of San Servolo and San Lazzaro of Armeni, up to Lido of Venice, where you can have a break on the crowded beaches. Finally you can travel by bike on the lonely sandy isthmus of Pellestrina, a pretty route between the sea and the lagoon venezia1close to Chioggia.
