Canda Italy
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CroisiEurope (33 Cruises)
MS Michelangelo
33 Cruises
| 27 March | 6 days | One-way from Venice to Mantua |
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| 27 March | 7 days | One-way from Venice to Mantua |
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| 24 May | 6 days | One-way from Venice to Mantua |
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| 24 May | 7 days | One-way from Venice to Mantua |
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| 28 August | 6 days | One-way from Venice to Mantua |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Directly against the bank of the Canalbianco, a few steps from the first houses. No shuttle, no terminal: you step onto the grass and the village is right there. River boats often stay overnight.
In the Polesine, the strip of land between the Adige and the Po, province of Rovigo, in the Veneto. It is a stop on the river route between Venice and Mantua, in countryside so flat the sky seems to fill all the space.
Villa Nani Mocenigo, immediately east of the village on the canal embankment itself. Built between 1580 and 1584 for a Venetian patrician family, its design is attributed to Vincenzo Scamozzi. Its water-facing facade displays a loggia on Corinthian columns crowned with stone urns.
No. The property now belongs to a bank and the interior is not open. It is best admired from the bank, and through the gates you can glimpse the English-style park, its eighteenth-century mythological statues and a sixteenth-century chapel.
Walk or cycle the path along the canal, view the villa from the embankment, take in the parish church and the square. Ordering an espresso at the local cafe counter and listening to the regulars remains the best way to take the pulse of the place.
Very few. A cafe, the church, a few houses along the bank: that is all. Bring cash and expect neither souvenir shops nor cash machines. This is exactly the kind of stop where expecting nothing is how you receive everything.
Land won back from the marshes, ditch by ditch, dyke by dyke, over centuries. The landscape remembers it: straight ditches, isolated farms, poplar groves planted in perfect lines. From the deck you read this patient work like leafing through an old notebook.
Spring and autumn. In spring, fields of wheat and maize frame the road; in autumn, mist rises from the river and softens every outline. Summer is hot and humid on this shadeless plain.
The euro. Italian and a very much alive Venetian dialect are spoken; English is rare in this farming village. Greetings come easily, even without a shared language.
Provided you know what you came for. Few monuments, a lot of quiet, a Venetian villa at the water's edge and a rural Italy that classic itineraries ignore. It is the breathing space on the Venice to Mantua route, not a highlight.
