Italy, Venice, Certosa island, moored boats

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Vento di Venezia

Murano, Burano & the Northern Islands


La Certosa’s yacht marina complex includes a hotel, an alfresco restaurant-bar and a sailing club, which runs regattas and a summer sail camp for children.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Murano, Burano & the Northern Islands attractions

1. Basilica di San Pietro di Castello

0.44 MILES

As interesting as it is, St Peter's would be lucky to scrape into the top 10 of Venice's most impressive churches. Yet it served as the city's cathedral…

2. Parco delle Rimembranze

0.61 MILES

At the eastern limit of the Giardini Pubblici, on the island of Sant'Elena, this memorial park is planted with umbrella pines, each originally…

3. Giardini Pubblici

0.63 MILES

Begun under Napoleon as the city's first public green space, these leafy gardens are now the main home of the Biennale. Around half of the gardens is open…

4. Serra dei Giardini

0.66 MILES

This attractive iron-framed greenhouse was built in 1894 to house the palms used in Biennale events. It rapidly expanded into a social hub and a centre…

5. Garibaldi Monument

0.67 MILES

Positioned at the top of the public gardens, this statue of Italian Unification hero Giuseppe Garibaldi has him commanding a mountain with a tame-looking…

6. Monument to the Partisan Woman

0.68 MILES

Located in the lapping water just along from the Riva dei Sette Martiri – where seven Venetian partisans were publicly executed by the Nazis in 1944 –…

7. Antico Cimitero Israelitico

0.73 MILES

This overgrown graveyard was Venice’s main Jewish cemetery from 1386 until the 18th century. Tombstones range in design from Venetian Gothic to distinctly…

8. Arsenale

0.76 MILES

Founded in 1104, the Arsenale soon became the greatest medieval shipyard in Europe, home to 300 shipping companies employing up to 16,000 people. Capable…