The Lido - wellness through HISTORY, CULTURE, SPORTS
Do not leave without visiting the Lido of Venice, the new health resort-beach "Bagni Alberoni-Lido" - 25 minutes from Venice-6 daily.
So one of the first ad cites busy tourist area of today launch the famed Lido of Venice.
As is clear in the history of a thousand signs that characterize the Lido, the seaside resorts, its water as well, not too far away from the hustle-Venice, are among the main uniqueness of where you created the fortune of this strip of sandy land. A transformation began in late '800, quickly grew to like European beach resort Biarritz and Ostend, the Lido today contains numerous examples of men entrepreneurs, creative, enthusiastic to provide an island of everything that this could be called welfare.
In 1873 the bathing establishment (founded by Cav. Busetto said Fisola in 1857) begins to see strong growth with 160,000 admissions from all over Europe are brought to the dressing rooms and 600 are open special "toilet" for treatment of sea water sprayed and compressed air, or thin. At the same time the Company Venetian Lagoon Steam Navigation, founded in 1873, settled in 1882 between Venice and the Lido, a regular steamship service with comfortable all day by day and night.
But the history of the Lido, as well as toilets and shelters in the world literature by writer Thomas Mann, who lived there from 1912 until a brief appearance in 1934, is also rich in architecture with multiple paths. Villa Elisa, Villa Igea, Villa Bianca, Villa Margarita, Villa Eva, Hungaria Palace Hotel, celebrated the Grand Hotel Des Bains Hotel Excelsior, are the names of some important buildings that they saw several architects involved for their implementation, including Torres, Perez, Conrad and Del Giudice. Itineraries to a time when the architectural style of reference was the Liberty, but here, in many cases, is freely interpreted and assembled with new Byzantine styles, Neo-Romanesque, Gothic and neo-eclectic, already present in the cityVenice.
In 1930, a visit and conversation between Henry Ford (U.S. automobile magnate) and Count Giuseppe di Misurata, founder of the CIGA time (Italian Grand Hotels Company), promotes the rapid creation of an 18-hole golf course is still very popular. In those years took place "Competitions and Tournaments of Tennis", emphasizing the centrality of the island for more sports starting point of the famous "International Powerboat Races."
Earth, water but also air, with its private airport Nicelli. Important example of architecture of the fascist period, was the strategic point from which the hunting ground of the French Air Neuport 10 to protect the lagoon city during the war with Austria. Remarkable was the presence of Gabriele d'Annunzio who went to the Lido to strengthen the image and function of the airport. The poet, as he was known, was a participant in the Adriatic risky events of the war becoming an icon in Europe. A singular proof of the admiration we find an image of a Spad airplane on the ground at the Lido with "Did you maybe not," the title of a famous poet's work.
