The Venice lagoon, traveling on water

Slender strips of land that divides the Adriatic from a water surface almost static. 
Small islands which rise from the water brackish, sometimes deserted and covered with vegetation, sometimes with long-abandoned structures, sometimes full of wonderful memories of former glory. 
To celebrate all this an outstanding natural environment, with one part Venice, which seems poised between water and sky, and the other the Friuli Grado, which, like the city of the Doges originated at the time of the barbarian invasions when the lagoon was the last refuge from the Huns and the Lombards. When it is said that Venice lagoon is expected from this very water surface looking property derives much of its charisma. 

The Rialto Bridge which crosses the main street of town, the view of the island of San Giorgio Maggiore from the Piazzetta San Marco, the Giudecca dall'infilata view of Rafts, silence unlimited island of San Pietro, have been around the world and called in the Venetian lagoon so many millions of tourists from all over the place, often not willing to abandon the boat crossing the Canal Grande to take pictures to facades Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque or solitary trip to Torcello and muffled, but also intrigued to discover that's all started with the barbarian invasions and the need for the people who lived in the nearby mainland, to find a reliable shelter.

The magic of this corner of Italy in mid-air between sea and sky seem to move and where the water appears in its full strength only if you exit out of the usual tourist routes and stretching a bit the way we reach Chioggia (little Venice), or Jesolo (resort by definition of the Venetian lagoon), or a little further north of the lagoon of Marano. 

Essential and poignant landscape 
The elements that make up the landscape of the lagoon are few and almost always simple. 
Mainly water, no salt water of the Adriatic, but even that gentle flowing into the rivers that once were more numerous and impressive works undertaken by the City of the Doges have diverted the course to avoid the mire. 
Then the deposits of earth and sand, shaped by the currents and man: the nucleus of Venice was at the Rialto Bridge, so called because that's where most of the island protruding from the water. 
Finally, the tides, now feared, but once they had the task to clean and decontaminate. 
It 'a shame that today's approach to the lagoon is almost always only by land, by giving up much of its magic and charm that had once astonished those who trade with Venice and that allowed you to write so many beautiful pages to writers A name for all: Thomas Mann with his masterpiece Death in Venice.