Coast south of Venice

[PeachesMcLean]

Would you recommend it?

North (east) of Venice seems to look this

Eurocamp and keycamp between them only have one site south of Venice. Vacansoleil have loads. Around Chioggia / Ravenna / Rimini?

Have you been? What's it like?

We're after places to visit, days out / lovely towns / villages / history / beaches. Don't like huge built up resorts but prepared to put up with a bit of tack for DS's sake.

Anyone?

I've been to rimini - long time ago, (1970s) but it was lovely, beaches were clean, weather hot, sites good. we stayed in lido de jesolo. Venice is ok for a day trip. Also there are glass factories and museums, trips on the water...(reminiscing over the long hot summers of my girlhood)

Thanks sparky. You may have gone there before it got over developed. The link was to Jesolo . I just can't get any sense that apart from Venice, there's really much to see on that side of the city. The southern side seems to have more villages and interesting towns. But that might just be my rubbish research...

It's certainly doesn't seem to be very popular with British tourists - more Dutch and German perhaps.

Anyone else been there?

We'e going to Camping Portofelice in caorle north of Vencice. Looks a tad built up but loads for DCs and we will have car so hoping to explore too. She says before (hopefully) sinking onto sun lounger and sleeping for 2 weeks!!!
Booked with French/Camping LIfe for £1000 for 4 of us last 2 weeks in Aug. tesco vouchers are paying!!!! If entertainment programme etc is naff (probably...) we will chill round BBq at mobile and drink lots of local wine - just to help local businesses of course!

Fancy day trip to Venice althoug dd (4) is refusing to go in a gondola already - doesn't know what it is!!!!

Ello ello saw your link on Little Italy so I guess I am easily found then .
I don't know the area that goes Chioggia Ravenna side that well apart form its a bit ' spaced out'. Chioggia is a nice place but not that much to do really its a fishing town basically ok for a day but thats about it. I know Jesolo ( blugh) Carole - nicer , basically that coast better and then again the Rimmini , Riccone, cattolica , Gabbice way ..My fave along that coast is Pesaro - bit of tack , bit of culture nice inland places to visit not far away plus water park ( Riccione) . Fun Park - Rimmini. ( car hire needed) Hope that helps a bit - Am really more an expert on Venice living here. Another Luverly area is Sirolo / Numana alot quieter less tack and a bit of culture but is is more sleepy.

Yes, go further south,most of the places between Venice and Rimini are pure tack and the sea isn't very nice. I'd recommend Pesaro too, Fano's the next town along then there's Senigallia etc. Try and find Le Marche on the internet, its a beautiful region with lots of medieval towns and rolling countryside. A bit like an undiscovered Umbria. I'd find you a link only DP's hounding me to go on effing ebay.

I stayed at Lido di Jesolo a couple of years ago. Full of Germans but not bad. Nice beach and easy daytrip to Venice. We were on a coach so I don't know what's near.

Back again!

Here you go

It looks very highbrow but there is tack a plenty at the seaside to please the discerning child and if you feel the need, Rimini's less than an hour up the motorway.

Wow, Le Marche looks stunning!

Sounds like my thoughts re south of Venice just aren't right. I did wonder why it hardly featured in the Eurocamp / Keycamp brochures (but oddly lots in a dutch company brochure).

I just can't see the attraction in that Jesolo to Caorle stretch. Looks equally "stretched out" - ie miles before you get somewhere intersting, and built up to boot.

Hmm. May have to go back to Tuscany after all. Damn!

Nooo, don't do Tuscany sooo overdone and full of Brits. Really, Le Marche has almost everything Tuscany has but less frequented and cheaper. If you have a car you can drive to Tuscany from the somewhere like Pesaro in about 2/2.5 hours.

Oh lord too much choice. 2 hour drive to anywhere is too much though - we did a 1 1/5 hour drive to San Gimignano last year and it was a bit much tbh. We will have a hire car though.

DH fancies Naples / Sorrento as well. Thankfully there are no Eurocamp / Keycamp / Vacansoleil campsites there - accomodation of choice. Got to set some limits or we'll be researching independent campsites too! Aaaarrgh!

How about Lake Garda? Lots of nice campsites there, lots of watersports, excellent wine and olive oil and nice mountains a short distance away. I think there's a place a lot of Brits go to, will just look it up.

Oh, and you won't be far from Venice should you decide to pop over for a visit and Verona is practically lakeside.

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Do you definitely need a campsite? Have you tried looking at German camping companies for some alternative locations?

Sorry, I'm not helping much with decision making am I?

Hi I went to Duna Verde nr Caorle twice in the Seventies. It was great back then, but I'm not sure what it is like now. In the seventies it was full of children cycling around unsupervised and there were lots of swimming pools to compensate the fact that the sea wasn't fantastic .
I will recommend Marche as well, you can fly to Ancona with easy jet. the best stretch of sea is to be found near monte Conero. and there's lots of medieval villages dotted around...

I went to a part of Tuscany with no brits in site this summer

So, if you go to Caorle is there a selection of small but interesting towns within a 45 minute journey? I think that's the crunch. Don't mind doing a "big day out" to Venice, but is there more local stuff? We went to a place just north of Piombino earlier this year - Piombino is grim (nice steelworks!) but we had a couple of short trips out to lovely places and there was the whole Estruscan thing going on too.

I think it's the history I really like. And I don't get a sense of that from Lake Garda. Whereas in Tuscany, every corner had something fantastic and old and evocative.

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Peaches, I don't know about Caorle, I was 6!!!

If you are interested in history then Marche is your place. Plenty of things to see (think Urbino!!!) from different eras.

Lake Garda is actually quite close to historical sights, Verona, Trento, Sirmione to name a few.

Urbino

I just want to add another vote for Le Marche, we spent the last week of Aug there. We stayed here www.azienda-cerqueto.com/property_details.php?name=azienda_cerqueto&PHPSESSID=f38e220f8e3fea9de3b179 1a0d9f0f44 about 50 mins inland from the coast near the Siblini National Park. Fantastic area, virtually no tourists but to be honest the coast is a bit grim (but didn't go to Sirolo or Numana which are meant to be nice).