Quarto d'Altino

Quarto D’Altino is a small town easily accessible from Venice, it takes just 20 minutes by train. Altino is an significant archaeological place. There visitors find proofs of the Roman occupation. The development of the earliest city named Altinum due to the construction of Via Annia in 131 B.C, completed the connection between Rome and the significant town of Aquileia, that was located in the north-east part of Italy. It was just at the end of the last century, when important works of renovation and modernization, were made that the remains of Altinum were discovered. In 1960 a museum, the archaeological Museum of Altino, was opened. Inside visitors can appreciate numerous finds and precious objects of the old roman civilization. In the museum there are many funeral monuments and grave goods as well as furnishings, mosaics from houses, bronzes, pottery, glasses and coins.

Apart from the museum, the area is suggestive because the landscape is representative of the characteristic Pianura Padana with its huge fields of maize and vineyards. The town of Quarto D’Altino and its surrounding is also know for the high quality of white and red wine produced. Visitors enjoy simple and typical meals drinking a glass of wine and tasting delicious sweets. The best way to visit this typical area is riding a bicycle, enjoy at its best the charm and tranquillity of this quite area with its fields and vineyards.