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Autumn can be a wonderful time to visit the city: Venice shows its more authentic version, the Venetians’ everyday city, still plenty of things to see and do.
The ” Festa del Mosto” (Festival of the must, freshly pressed grape juice) in Sant’Erasmo Island, on September 30. There will be entertainment activities for kids , the pressing demonstration, the famous Venetian rowing regatta “mixed” (where the crew, unlike any other rowing competition, are composed of a man and a woman) and the band.
5-7 October is Garden festival a special occasion for walking in colourful fall red-gold-orange gardens, often closed to the public.
Thousands of running entusiasts will run the Venicemarathon on 25th October starting from Stra along the Riviera del Brenta, finish line at Riva Sette Martiri.
Do not miss the Biennale Architettura (until November 25) and the 500th anniversary of the birth of the Venetian painter, Jacopo Tintoretto , the new exbitions and the theatrical season (Check our Calendar of events).
On 21st November  the Feast of Madonna della Salute is celebrated, with a temporary bridge over the Grand Canal to the Salute Church and special masses.
It is a very Venetian feast. Even today, thousands of people make the pilgrimage to pay homage to the Virgin and to light a candle asking her to keep them in good health. The procession of believers passes stalls selling sweets, coloured balloons and toys. Special foods are prepared just for this day.
In the mainland, in the islands and in the historic centre a rich calendar of events for Le Città in Festa.
If you are looking for new perspectives so to discover the true soul of the city, autumn is the best choice.

Every year for two days in September, Italy celebrates the European Heritage Days, in the frame of the programme promoted since 1991 by the European Council and the European Commission. During the European Heritage Days, doors are opened to thousands of monuments and sites (some of them normally closed to the public), allowing people to enjoy free visits, learn about their shared cultural heritage and become actively involved in the safeguarding of Europe’s heritage for present and future generations. Million people participate to the events.
Venetian State cultural places and local museums, as well as galleries, foundations and private associations with guided tours, special initiatives and openings of spaces normally closed to the public, participate to the EHD.
Saturday, September 22nd evening special openings are also included with admission at the nominal cost of 1 euro. 

From “DeTourism”

Venice historic centre is completely pedestrian, it is not allowed to ride bikes nor any other cycles, not even carrying them by hand. It is only allowed to carry bikes by hand exclusively in the short itinerary going from Venice-Piazzale Roma, across Costituzione bridge, and then going along Santa Lucia bank, until the Scalzi Bridge.

For those arriving in Mestre by bike and directed to Venice, a bike-park is available with more than 800 places nearby Venezia-Mestre railway station, in Trento street.

Venice mainland has plenty of green areas: two big urban parks – Parco San Giuliano and Parco Albanese – as well as a 230-hectare area of woodland, that can be visited by bike lanes. All these green areas can be quite easily reached from Mestre historic centre by bycicle, thanks to an extensive network of cycling and walking routes.

To go to Lido and Pellestrina islands with your bike, you can only use special allocated ACTV public transport routes:

• the ferry-boat services connect Tronchetto terminal to Lido of Venice
• the boat routes connect Cavallino littoral to Lido and Pellestrina islands and to Chioggia historic centre
• the boat route Fusina-Alberoni.

In Mestre and at the Lido of Venice there is a fully automated public bicycle-sharing system, available 24/7. The first hour of use is free, while the next minutes are charged according to the given rates. To access the bike sharing service, you must have a Venezia Unica card. You can register online, or at authorized sales points.

Other itineraries on the outskirts:

• the Lido and Pellestrina cycling route
• the Munich – Venice cycling route

But you can choose many other bike tourism itineraries in the Region of Veneto.

From “DeTourism”

You are invited to the concert of sacred music at our Church of Santa Maria della Visitazione Friday, August 31st at 6.00 p.m. with free admission. The international choral project of Dr. Edzard Burchards and Dr. Kai Schulze-Forster chose music by Willaert, Gabrieli, Monteverdi, Merulo, Legrenzi, Lotti.

 

The spectacular event, the most famous Venetian Regatta starts from 4.00 pm with a magnificent historical procession consisting of splendid elaborately carved boats complete with hundreds of figures in gorgeous bracade costumes. The water parade reevokes the triumphant welcome accorded by the Serenissima to the Queen of Cyprus, Caterina Cornaro, who donated her kingdom to Venice in 1489.

There are four actual races, each one on special boats: the first is reserved for the Very Young on pupparini, the second for male crews on 6-oared caorline, the third for Women on 2-oared mascarete, while the 4th constitutes the high spot of the event, that is to say it sees the famous rowing champions compete on gondolini which are a sporting development of the gondola and are only used in the city’s major rowing contest. The arrival is at the Machina ( a grandstand of honour for the authorities) near Ca’ Foscari.

You can attend the Regata Storica comfortably seated on the uncovered floating stalls set up along the Grand Canal near Campo San Polo.

On Friday 24th August 2018, in the week before the Historical Regatta, a disnar with self-organized outdoor tables will be prepared in different areas of Venice city centre, the islands and the mainland. The tradition is back for people who want to know more about  the world of rowing and meet the rowers, in a very Venetian way of living. People bring their own food and drink to share it with other participants.

From “DeTourism”