Venetian Lido is a thin island 12 km long, which divides the Lagoon of Venice from the sea; it connects San Nicolò port to Malamocco one, and the island is reachable only by boats and ferry-boat.
Lido is one of the few Venetian Lagoon island in which you can find driveways.
It was already love deeply in 1820: a lot of poets and writers chose this places as destination or dwelling place; whe can remember George Gordon Byron and Thomas Mann.
All over the island we can find buildings of the 18th century, like "Murazzi", a work to protect the Lagoon from the Sea.
Near Lido's downtown, architecture becomes rich in liberty stile buildings and in green parks, while the large lined with trees street which passes throught the island, from Lagoon to sea, is named "Granviale".
The Ancient center of Santa Maria Elisabetta, placed at the end of Granviale, in the seaside, is full of last 18th century buildings now used as hotels.
Here you cand find also Santa Maria Elisabetta Church; from it's opposite square, a long avenue called "Riviera" leads to San Nicolò, where it is possible to admire the 17th century reconstructed church: in the ascension day, in this place,
the ancient "Serenissima Republic" was celebrating the "Marriage with the Sea", a tradition carried out until today.
Interesting is the ancient Jewish Cemetery, not far from the Church and builded in 1389.
Across this place, in the beach side, you can find the "Lungomare". It's divided into "Lungomare Marconi" and "Lungomare D'Annunzio" by Granviale, where there is "Piazzale Bucintorno" known as Blue Moon.
Both are very striking and they look like big tunnels made of longleaf pines: they cover all the plage, from the Hospital near San Nicolò, up to Murazzi.
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