Perhaps best known as the location of the Venice Film Festival, held every year, Lido is an eleven-kilometre sandbar in Venice. Home to approximately 20,000 residents, it is one of the trendiest, but also most residential and affordable neighbourhoods of Italy’s famed lagoon city.

Protecting the rest of Venice from the Adriatic Sea, Lido is well known as Venice’s beach district. Many hotels on the island have their own private access to a strip of sand and surf. There is also a public beach at the end of Gran Viale. Golf, tennis and cycling are all popular pursuits.Every year, the Venice Film Festival takes over the neighbourhood with screenings and celebrity sightings galore.

Lido is located south-east of central Venice between the lagoon and the Adriatic Sea. Vaporetto service links the island with San Marco in less than 20 minutes.

The annual Venice Film Festival held in Lido is the oldest film festival in the world, founded in 1932. It is part of the larger Venice Biennale, which also includes an International Art Exhibition, an International Festival of Contemporary Music and an International Kids’ Carnival.