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This discovery tour by kayak will take you to key historic zones in the Venetian Lagoon: paddle around the lagoon islands of Sant’Erasmo and Vignole, known as the “vegetable gardens” of Venice; discover the Sant’Andrea fort built to protect Venice from its enemies; learn where the word “quarantine” was born on the island of Lazzaretto nuovo; relax on the secret hidden natural spot of the island of Certosa and enjoy the skyline of Venice from a privileged perspective.
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This island, known also as the "Venice's vegetable garden", will be our starting point of our kayak discovery tour. We will reach the island thanks to a water bus. Here we will take our kayaks and you will be introduced to basic knowledge of paddling and to safety rules.
The Venetian republic developed here the concept of "quarantine island", a Venetian intuition then exported all over the world in the following centuries. The island became in 1468 a hospital with contagion prevention tasks: it housed the warehouses that were used to examine the goods suspected of being infected by the plague disease. It was then used as a fortress under Napoleonic and Austrian rule, and was abandoned by the Italian army in 1975. Now fully recovered and protected by the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, it is one of the few abandoned islands of the Venice Lagoon to have undergone a decisive action of recovery and restoration.
Vignole Island is another unknown corner of the Venetian lagoon and, like its neighbour Sant’Erasmo, is a strip of land dedicated to horticulture. Holiday resort of the first Venetians, today few inhabitants live in Vignole in scattered houses interspersed with cultivated fields.
The Certosa island (or simply "La Certosa") used to be inhabited by monks, evicted by the Napoleonic provisions in the XIX century. After being a military outpost until its definitive abandonment in the past years, the island has been undergoing a phase of redevelopment, with the establishment of a park that enhances its rich environmental heritage, where wild animals find shelter among white poplars, ash trees, privets, hawthorns, mulberries and other plants typical of the coasts.
A real hidden gem accessible only by kayak: a fortress designed by Architect Sanmicheli in the 16th century in the middle of the lagoon in front of the harbour mouth facing the Adriatic Sea. The fort was a form of dissuasion to be shown to visitors and ambassadors, especially Ottomans, rather than a real defensive work. The fort opened fire only once against an enemy ship, on April 20, 1797, on the eve of the fall of the Republic!
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