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cruising from Chioggia (Venice)

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Laguna Veneta  

 


  From Chioggia to Altino, Sixty thousand hectares of completely integrated nature and history which represent an inestimable cultural and environmental patrimony. To arrive in Venice at the helm of your own boat (preferably at dusk) is so suggestive a unique experience, not to be missed..

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Venezia


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Week-end, short weeks. Chioggia, Venezia, Burano, San Francesco del deserto, Torcello, Muramo and return journey Km 80 (12 hours of navigation)

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Grado and Marano lagoon  

 


  Friuli, a hospitable land, peasant people and good wine.
Navigate between fishing cottages and valleys, between sandbanks and small coasts, from island to island from village to village, to discover ancient areas and new flavours.

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Grado
Marano

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Week-end, short week Marano, Aquileia, Grado, Precenico and return journey Km. 105, (15 hours of navigation)

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River Sile  

 


  It is considered to be the healthiest of the Italian rivers. Recommended to those in search of peace and quiet.
Glide with the slow current of the river with, on either side of the low riverbanks, the completely flat, delightful and well cultivated sweet Venetian countryside.

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Fiume Sile
Treviso

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A week. Chioggia, Venice and Islands, Jesolo, Caposile, Treviso and return journey
Km 193, 2 locks, 2 draw bridges (27 hours of navigation.

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Il naviglio del Brenta

 


  A romantic river itinerary, well known throughout the world for its most beautiful locations, for the beauty of the villas with their parks which reflect on the winding waters between the green grass banks.

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Ville venete

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Short Week. Chioggia, Malamocco, Fusina, Padua and return journey
Km 130, 10 locks, 18 draw bridges (26 hours of navigation)

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Venetian coast Chioggia Trieste  

 


  It is an ancient waterway, created by “Serenissima” during the period of maximum splendour.
It is a classical navigation route, one which offers a varied and surprising scenery: From the fishing cottages to the Grand Canal palaces, from the wide estuaries of the Venetian rivers to the green landscape cut from the beds of reeds, from a productive countryside to lazy beaches.

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Chioggia
Trieste

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One Week, Two Weeks. Chioggia, Venice and Islands, Portegrandi, Caposile, Musile di Piave, Cortellazzo, Carole, Bibione, Precenico, Aquileia, Grado, Lignano Marano and or vice versa. Km. 225, 5 locks, 5 draw bridges (32 hours of navigation)

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Delta of the River Po

 


  Glide along in the silence of the reeds, in hidden and suggestive places, and uncontaminated and melancholy nature, the tenacious industriousness of its inhabitants, simple houses dotted with discretion on the high sky landscape.

The delta of the River Po, a small Mesopotamia, between the Adige and the Po, has seen so many ancient cultures.

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Delta del Po

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3/4 days. Chioggia, Albarella, Bocasette and return journey (Brontolo, Levante, Venice and Maistra Po).
Km. 121, 8 locks (17 hours of navigation)

7 days. Chioggia, Taglio di Po, Ariano, Mesola, Goro, Ca Tiepolo, Bocasette, Portoviro, Albarella and return journey to Chioggia. (Brontolo, Venice and Goro Po).
Km. 206, 8 locks, 1 draw bridges, (28 hours of navigation).

 

 

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