Bike tour and Honey Tasting on Sant’Erasmo Island

Let's hop on our bikes and ride through Venice's "vegetable garden," which includes artichoke fields and farms. While at it, we can get an unusual perspective of Venice's metropolis and try the one-of-a-kind honey manufactured especially on this island.

Highlights:

• Venice

• Sant'Erasmo island

• Bike tour

• Honey tasting

• Farm tour

• Burano

• San Francesco del Deserto

Includes:

• Transfer to and from Sant'Erasmo island

• A bicycle

• A Guide

• Local product tasting (honey or alternative product according to season)

Please note: this experience is held daily.

On this magnificent journey, we will reach Sant'Erasmo island, also known as "Venice's vegetable garden," after a 30-minute Vaporetto trip through the lagoon. Once a rural retreat for nobles and the Republic of Venice's primary source of fruit and vegetables, the island is now a refuge for Venetian families away from tourists and a unique natural feature of the northern lagoon. After landing, you'll stroll down a narrow road via canals and ditches to the bike rental shop, where you can pick up your countryside bike.

The trip will start in a fort from the 1800s that is often used to show art and is surrounded by a moat that has stayed the same for a long time. The canal was started by the Napoleonic dictatorship and finished by the Austrians. You will ride your bike around the lagoon, vegetable fields, and salt marshes while enjoying views of the San Nicol harbor mouth at Lido Island, Punta Sabbioni, and areas with typical rural homes. Find out about the island's unique natural beauty and watch the few people who live there live a slow, traditional life. Despite being the lagoon's largest island, Sant'Erasmo is home to barely 700 people, the bulk of whom farm their grounds, producing unique fruits and vegetables.

Not only do veggies and fruits taste better on this one-of-a-kind island, but so do flowers, and bees are well aware of this! You will visit a small family-owned apiary producing local salt marsh honey. Then you'll reach the northern section, looking over the sea and mud banks towards the islands of Burano noted for its colorful dwellings, and San Francesco del Deserto, a Franciscan monastery.

After the trip, you may take a water bus back to Venice Fondamente Nove or stay on the island for lunch or supper at a restaurant with a terrace overlooking the lagoon.