The islands of Lido di Venezia and Pellestrina mark the watershed between the Adriatic Sea and the Lagoon. Cycling along the cycle paths of these islands allows you to look out towards the open sea on one side and the lagoon on the other. The bell towers, the domes of the cities of Venice and Chioggia, shine in the background. This experience alone is enough to justify your choice of this bike tour.

The GiraSile cycle path runs along the banks of the longest spring-fed river in Europe in one of the most appealing stretches of the Regional Natural Park. In this area, the relationship between man and river is a constant dialogue between modernity and tradition, between natural areas and cultivated environments, between river landscapes and Venetian villas.

Along the wine route that winds through the Colli Euganei, between curves and gentle slopes, we come across the Eremo Camaldolese di Monte Rua. We are in the town of Torreglia, about twenty kilometres from Padua, among beech, birch and oak forests and orderly terraced vineyards.

Surrounded by an imposing wall built in the sixteenth century, the Hermitage has been home to a monastic community for around a thousand years and its members live in cloistered silence respecting the Benedictine rule of ora et labora.