A short distance from the historical city opens the Venice lagoon, a large, silent expanse of water dotted with half submerged lands, where the noise of the city give way to silence.
There are hundreds of islands that emerge in the lagoon: some are large and others small, some inhabited, some uninhabited and other sparsely populated, and some seem stable, while others are being formed and more are being eroded or are even disappearing. There are many protected birds like egrets, gulls, kingfishers, herons, hawks….
Here reign supreme boats and fishermen. It is the part of Venice where nature predominates, but it is also the place where the signs of history show how the city’s origins are ancient and distant.