Bike tour with honey and artichockes on Sant’Erasmo island

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Experience Details
What You’ll Experience
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Duration
4 hours
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Number of Guests
1 - 10 guests
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Language
English, Italian, German
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Explore Sant’Erasmo, Venice's vegetable garden, on a bike tour. Visit artichoke fields, taste unique honey, and admire the Venice skyline from this tranquil, traditional island.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

Let's bike through the "Orto di Venezia" (Venice's "vegetable garden"), through artichokes fields and farms, admiring the Venice skyline from a very unusual view and tasting the unique honey produced only on this island.

Bike along the island banks and fields and enjoy a rare view of Venice from an unusual spot. Experience the unique natural beauty of the island, appreciating the relaxed and traditional lifestyle of its few inhabitants. In fact, although being the largest island of the lagoon, Sant’Erasmo is populated by only 700 people, the majority of whom farm their own lands producing amazing fruits and vegetables.

One of most interesting crops is the typical purple-hued artichokes, a slow food ® presidium “Carciofo Violetto di Sant'Erasmo”. Another typical activity in the island is beekeeping: bees enjoy the amazing variety of flowers growing on the salty soil, and they produce a unique kind of honey which you will be able to taste.

While biking you will appreciate the variety of crops grown by local farmers as well as beautiful wild landscapes while spotting the belfries of Venice from afar.

What You Get

Local Product (honey or artichokes according season and availability)
Logistics
Meeting point in Venice Fondamente Nove
Water bus ticket to Sant'Erasmo island. Tickets will be purchased onboard.
Gratuities

Good To Know

  • On certain dates, most travelers staying outside of Venice who are planning to visit for the day will be required to pay a €5 access fee. For further details (including exemptions) and to learn what days this fee is applicable, please visit: https://cda.ve.it
  • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

What You’ll Experience

Sant'Erasmo (Pass By)

We will reach the Sant'Erasmo island, also known as the "Venice's vegetable garden", thanks to a 30 minutes Vaporetto ride through the lagoon. Once a rural retreat for aristocrats and the main source of vegetable and fruit supplies for the Republic of Venice, the island is now a tourist-free refuge for Venetian families as well as a unique natural highlight of the Northern lagoon.

Isola di Sant'Erasmo (Pass By)

Once landed, we will walk through a small road passing canals and ditches, towards the bike rental place, where we can get our countryside bikes.
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Torre Massimiliana

A circular fort facing the lagoon: The tour will start from a 19th century fort sometimes used for art exhibitions and surrounded by a stagnant moat, started by the Napoleonic regime and finished by the Austrian.
15 minutesAdmission Ticket Free

Isola di Sant'Erasmo (Pass By)

Biking through the island: We will bike along the lagoon, vegetables fields and saltmarshes admiring views of the San Nicolò harbour mouth at Lido island, Punta Sabbioni and passing through fields enriched by typical rural dwellings.
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Isola di Sant'Erasmo

Visit to a local honey producer: We will visit to a little family owned apiary producing local saltmarsh honey.
30 minutesAdmission Ticket Free

Ridotto di Sant'Erasmo (Pass By)

We will reach the northern part, facing across the water and mud banks towards the islands of Burano, whose coloured houses can just be distinguished, and San Francesco del Deserto, a monastery inhabited by Franciscan monks.

Sant'Erasmo Chiesa (Pass By)

A church facing the lagoon: We will visit one of the few notable buildings on the island, the church, in front of the calm lagoon waters.

Sant'Erasmo (Pass By)

We will get back to Venice Fondamente Nove by water bus or you can decide to stay on the island of lunch or dinner in a restaurant with a terrace overlooking the lagoon.

Meeting & Pickup

Meeting Point

il Caffegelato, Fondamente Nove, Venezia Città Metropolitana di Venezia Veneto, Italy, IT, 30121

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at Caffegelato bar at Fondamente Nove
End Point

Capannone, Venice Metropolitan City of Venice Veneto, Italy, IT, 30141

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You will decide if staying on Sant'Erasmo island for a lunch or dinner or to reach back Venice with the guide by water bus

Cancellation Policy

Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.

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