During the sailing, we will explore the Venetian Lagoon which extends within an area of about 550 km² and includes over sixty islands. We will skirt the various islands from south to north, crossing the harbor mouth of Chioggia and Malamocco, to finally arrive in St. Mark’s basin in Venice with a spectacular entrance in the heart of the city.
On your right, you can see Chioggia’s harbor mouth, which is one of the three harbor mouths of the lagoon together with Malamocco and Lido di Venezia. They allow boats and ships to sail towards the Adriatic Sea but, above all, they allow the renewal of the lagoon waters that occurs at a constant pace every six hours. The environment of the Lagoon of Venice is an eco-natural system of extraordinary complexity, composed of tides and rivers and transformed by storms and floods.
On your right, you can see a massive structure called M.O.S.E. which has been built to safeguard Venice and its islands from “Acqua alta” – high water. This work consists of 78 mobile bulkheads that are raised by order of the City of Venice when the island is in danger of flooding.
