The district surrounding the second most important beach in Italy looks as if it is suspended between the sandy coastline, the northern part of the Venetian lagoon and wide river courses.
The agricultural and inhabited landscape which replaced the originally waterlogged terrain over a century ago, is unique, with its patchwork of scatterd houses, rural villages and extensive orchards.
Pears, aplles and peaches are the main produce of the hinterland of Jesolo, just as the sun, a clean sea and the most modern facilities are the assets of the seaside resort.
Cycle-touring in the 'Jesolo countryside', which is winding and often along unsurfaced and concealed trackways, can lead to the discovery of a wealth of unexplored scenery, offering aspects of recent history mixed in with fascinating rural architecture and picturesque variations of colours and hues created by the characteristic crops.

Route: Jesolo Paese (village), Ca' Pirami, River Piave embankment, Passarella, Passarella di Sotto, Ca' Pirami, Jesolo Paese
Departure: Piazza Matteotti (square), Jesolo Paese (Village)
Distance: 17 km
Duration: 2 hrs
Note: Heavy traffic can be found on the stretch of road between Passarella and Jesolo during July and August

Setting out from Piazza Matteotti in Jesolo paese, bear right along Via Piave Vecchio and, skirting the Sile-Piave Vecchia river, you come to the crossroads with Via Pirami. Turn right and you soon reach open countryside, leaving the last few houses of the new residential area of Jesolo behind.

The next stretch, which leads to the village of Ca' Pirami, is surrounded by orchards, interspersed with picturesque, old, rustic houses, and a few modern ones, too.
In spring, this suburban countryside is adorned with bright veils of white pear and apple blossom, while millions of bees hum around the flowers, ensuring a plentiful fruit harvest in late Summer.

Go straight ahead at the first crossroads of Ca' Pirami; at the second crossroads, where a little shrine converted into a chapel keeps vigil, turn left.

Cycle along the historical trackway of the Argine S. Marco (St. Marco embankment), which was built by the Venetians in 1543 to protect the northern part of the lagoon from flooding by the River Piave. The route passes through an area divided up into small holdings and, after about a kilometre and a half, leaves the metalled road and turns left by a large black poplar tree into Via Saccà. The unsurfaced trail seems to disappear into the green mosaic of allotments which lie between the river beds of the Piave and the Sile.

Along the following tract you can admire remote and open scenery, with broad horizons where vines grow alongside maize, watched over by an immense sky and sprinkled with pretty peasant dwellings now lying derelict. Three kilometres further on, you come to a crossroads close to a small water-scooping machine where you bear right and rapidly climb up onto the embankment of the River Piave.

Go left and, enjoying the view over the straight furrow of the bed of the alpine river, you get to the village of Passarella. Following the road which heads southwest, you descend from the embankment and ride towards Caposile.You then pass two consecutive crossroads where roads turn off and run towards the quiet littIe town centre; at the third crossroads, indicated by flashing traffic lights, turn left (into Via S. Pio X). Follow the straight lane towards Passarella di Sotto, crossing drainage channels and passing several little roadside shrines and rural dwellings.With Passarella di Sotto behind you, you are once again surrounded by the familiar orchard scenery and find yourself back at Ca' Pirami.
Take the turning on the right onto the final straight stretch of road which concludes your tour to retrace your outward route to Jesolo Paese.