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A Short Boat Ride from Busy Piazza San Marco, These Under-The-Radar Venetian Lagoon Islands Promise a Tourist-Free Taste of the Real Italy GET HERE BY ADAM H. GRAHAM PHOTOGRAPHY BY JON WHITTLE BEYOND VENICE A short boat ride from busy Piazza San Marco, these under-the-radar Venetian Lagoon islands promise a tourist-free taste of the real Italy. The view of Venice from the JW Marriott, set on a private island. 26 islands JUNE JUNE islands 27 GET HERE There are complimentary water shuttles for guests of both the JW Marriott and Kempinski from Piazza San Marco that depart every 30 minutes and take approximately 15 minutes to reach the islands. From the airport and train station, private shuttles or water taxis can be hired at the canal or arranged ahead of time through the hotels. Venissa Wine Resort can arrange private water taxis, but you can also reach it by taking the public Vaporetto ON THE WATER-TAXI RIDE FROM retreats and Michelin-starred restau- line. Getting to Torcello, Mazzorbo Venice’s Stazione di Venezia Santa Lucia, rants. Mazzorbo, Isola delle Rose, Burano, and Burano takes a storm is building on the horizon. The Torcello, Sant’Erasmo and Isola di San 35 minutes from O Piazza San Marco, boat skids over the canals, blurring past Clemente: what these islands offer is a but only 15 minutes Gothic arched windows and ornamental taste of Venice — with far fewer crowds. from the airport. bridges before emptying out into the vast, The lagoon itself is having a resur- Clockwise from above: The private shuttle boat at the JW open wetlands of the lagoon. The driver gence, finally recovering from decades Marriott; drinking and dining at the hotel’s Sagra Rooftop points to the inky sky and shouts over of pollution. At 212 square miles, it’s not Restaurant; a neo-Romanesque church on the grounds. the engine, “Acqua alta!” It means “high only the largest wetland in Italy, it’s the water” in Italian, but it’s the Venetian largest in the Mediterranean Basin. It’s term for the especially high tides that a critical flyway for birds and home to a affect the lagoon from September to May. variety of marine life, including bottle- Tellingly, it’s also interchangeable with nose dolphins. It also serves as Veneto’s the local word for storm. Water, as every larder, with seafood staples like native Venetian knows, is ubiquitous here: It’s shrimp, octopus, anchovies, razor clams under you, around you and, in this case, and mołeche, native green soft-shell crabs. even over you. The most transformative new devel- This rainy day is the start of my opment has been on Isola delle Rose, five-night trip to Venice, capital of the about 1½ miles from Venice’s iconic Veneto region. This time, though, I’m Piazza San Marco. The former sanitarium not setting foot in the city proper; the reopened as the 266-room JW Marriott tourist-clogged Doge’s Palace, Bridge Venice Resort & Spa in March of last of Sighs, Saint Mark’s — those I’ve done. year, with discreet canalside luxury vil- Instead, I’m turning my sights to the las with private plunge pools and docks; oft-overlooked islands of the Venetian two-story maisonettes with zigzag-tiled Lagoon, 118 in total. Some are mere islets floors; and a brick warehouse converted covered in grass and of interest only to to loft suites. The property also features a nesting ducks and their hunters; others century-old arboretum with cypress and are home to crumbling ruins and fish- olive trees, the one-Michelin-starred res- ing camps. But several are undergoing taurant Dopolavoro, and a 19th-century a major renaissance — with new luxury neo-Romanesque chapel festooned with hotels, revived vineyards, locavore yoga Barovier & Toso glass chandeliers crafted 28 islands JUNE Dusk on Mazzorbo — the tourists have departed, and quiet returns to the island’s colorful corridors. on the neighboring island of Murano. More Miami than Mediterranean, the spacious, modern lobby is dotted with white wing chairs, teal velvet sofas and long cotton drapes fluttering dramatically in the wind. There’s a handsome marble bar, a grand piano and old-fashioned glass jars stuffed with licorice and hard candy. From the hotel’s promenade, you can see the lights of Piazza San Marco, which is reachable in 15 minutes via the compli- mentary shuttle. But the guests who come and go from the resort use the island as an urban sanctuary during their visits to Venice. Another sanctuary: the proper- ty’s 18,000-square-foot spa, with thermal pools and treatment rooms situated right on the water. On a nearby lagoon island, the 15-acre Isola di San Clemente, sits another refurbished property, Kempinski’s San Clemente Palace. The history of the island dates back to A.D. 1131, and it has played the role of monastery, hospice and even a quarantine site for plague victims. Today, its posh 190-room hotel counts a spa and tennis courts among its ameni- ties, as well as the private, fully renovated, 12th-century San Clemente Church. But these splashy luxury palaces are only a part of the lagoon’s transformation. Several smaller and more organic devel- opments are helping to restore some of these islands to their roots. Perhaps WHEN TO GO the most significant is happening on Mazzorbo, a small, quiet island connected by a pedestrian bridge to the lagoon’s MAY largest island, Burano. TO SEPTEMBER Only a few hundred people live on In high season, the Mazzorbo, which to this day preserves weather is warm and dry, but April an authentic way of life that you won’t and October are find in Venice proper or on the private the best months to avoid crowds. hotel islands. Like Burano, the village is 30 islands JUNE JUNE islands 31 made up of brightly colored houses that Atop the tower is a breathtaking view of the recall the Caribbean, but with full-on Venetian characteristics: narrow alley- Venetian Lagoon and its islands in the distance. ways, leaning campaniles and, of course, “This is the birthplace of Venice,” Bisol says. wet sidewalks. Few tourists make it to Mazzorbo, but those who do inevitably take to the streets to photograph the colorful houses and the laundry hanging from the win- the Mazzorbo canal and is home to its own Mazzorbo, but we have to wind through dows. But just before the sun sets, they farm and vineyard — a Venetian version of a labyrinth of channels for 20 minutes to head back to Venice on the Vaporetto, the agritourism. Over the course of my three- make the crossing. Our wake spills over public water-transport line. At the same night stay, Bisol, the unofficial mayor of grassy duck blinds and irks Venetian fish- time, the local fishermen come home to Mazzorbo, plays the consummate host. ermen in small boats along the way. eat with their mammas. Lace curtains He introduces me to Venissa’s chefs and Once there, I meet Michel Thoulouze, are drawn over the small windows of old to the owners of a new yoga retreat on who moved to the island from France 14 houses, and the smells and sounds of the the neighboring island of Santa Cristina. years ago to make wine with ancient grapes kitchen trickle into its twisting streets I also get a tour of the nine gondolier- — especially the honeyed white Malvasia and canals. This is when Mazzorbo inspired guesthouses that he’s set to open from Istria. “We wanted to dig a cellar to reveals its true self. this spring on Burano. store the wine, but the water table is too The handsome, spritely Matteo Bisol, One morning, Bisol takes me on his high, so I decided to sink the wine in the youngest son of the famed Italian Bisol boat to the island of Torcello, less than lagoon, which is actually an ideal place for On Mazzorbo is Venissa, a six-room inn and Michelin- wine family, owns Mazzorbo’s only hotel, a mile away. It’s the oldest continuously it to age,” he says in a thick French accent starred restaurant owned by the Bisol family, who grow Venissa. The tidy six-room inn has a occupied part of Venice, and Bisol tells while pouring me a glass of 2011 Orto di grapes and produce wine on the tiny lagoon island. Michelin-starred restaurant overlooking me about how his family got involved in Venezia. “The first year we sank the wine, growing grapes there. “This is the vineyard it was stolen, so I had to make sure I was my father discovered on his visit to Venice,” discreet about the location. Now the only he says as we approach the 7th-century problem is remembering where we sank it,” Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, one of he says, chuckling. the tallest and oldest churches in Veneto. Thoulouze’s wines — vegetal and “When he saw those grapes, he wondered mineral and perfectly balanced — are if they were the rare, endangered Dorona considered some of the best in Venice. grapes. When he found out they were, he “The grapes do well in this salty climate offered to buy the vineyard on the spot.” and love the clay and limestone soil,” he Bisol’s wiry frame sprints up the stairs explains. He opens another bottle and we of the basilica’s bell tower while I lag talk about wine, which segues to a discus- behind, weighed down with the pasta and sion about the importance of the water, wine from last night. Atop the tower is a which somehow segues to heirloom chick- breathtaking view of the Venetian Lagoon ens (he’s raising them on Sant’Erasmo).
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