The richness of its landscape has led to its official recognition by the United Nations.
In Cavallino-Treporti, the landscape is not just a backdrop, but a daily-occurring presence. Those who cultivate the vegetable gardens say that the soil here is sandy and you need to know it well to make it fruitful. Those who live next to the lagoon know how to read the rhythm of the tides and the seasons. Those who fish, those who work in tourism, those who preserve the memory of military forts: everyone has a piece of the landscape in their hands.
Since 1987, this area has been part of the Unesco site “Venice and its Lagoon”, recognised as a cultural landscape. This designation does not change everyday life, but it gives value to what has always been done here: living with care, without forcing the environment, learning to respect its rules.
Along this narrow strip of land, between the sea and the lagoon, nature, history and human labour coexist. The inhabitants know this well: preserving does not mean locking in time, rather finding a balance between what we need today and what we want to leave to those who come after us.
Cavallino-Treporti is not just a landscape to look at. It is a place to listen to, where the voice of the community is part of its beauty.
‘We live in a landscape that we never stopped building’.