Lido Beach owes its notoriety to natural fine and golden sand dunes.
The water is clean and still thanks to the seawalls, named "pennelli" (in eng. "brushes") which starts from the shore of every private beach.
This name is due to the fact which this seawalls push out in the sea, narrowing the entrance of the Venetian Lagoon into which there is the harbour.
On San Nicolò's seawall (East) and on Alberoni's one (West) the building of MOSE is in progress; MOSE is a system to protect Venice from high tides.
The opportunities which Lido offers are various, from "arenili liberi" of S. Nicolò and Alberoni, characterized by the natural habitat of the ancient sand dunes, to the rocks of "Murazzi", up to the fancy and expensive beach plants on the middle of the island.
The first beach plant goes back to 1857: it's called "Grande stabilimento balneario eretto sull'Onda viva del Mare".
The downtown of Lido began to enliven of visitors, which bacame more and more numerous, tagging the island "Golden Island".
But the "Capanna" (in eng. "hut") is the feature of Lido's beach. It's composed by a big cabin with veranda and by a tent and the all "Capanna" has the colors of its beach plant.
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