Venice in autumn is also the "Festa del Mosto", an appointment that has been repeated for the past fifty years. We are in Sant'Erasmo Venezia, the most agricultural island in the lagoon. A place that for centuries with its vegetable gardens, orchards and vineyards seems to be a real paradise for agricultural production. Its name has always been linked to the fleshy and tasty violet artichoke, which can be tasted fried, browned or marinated with shrimps. Equally appreciated are the castraure which are the very good artichoke sprouts still raw with a drop of lemon.
If these, however, are the symbol of spring cuisine, Sant'Erasmo Venezia in autumn is famous for the "mosto", meaning more properly with this term the "torbolino", a kind of sweet, sparkling and low alcoholic wine, made from white grapes, not fully fermented.
The Festa del Mosto is traditionally celebrated in the first week of October to close the calendar of the long Venetian summer which ranges from the feast of Sant'Antonio in mid-June to the Festa de San Piero de Casteo in early July and the Redentore, at the end of July. to then arrive at the Historical Regatta on the first Sunday of September.
The regatta, however, is also the protagonist of the Festival of the must as if to sanction the eternal bond of this city between land and sea. One of the unmissable events of the event is in fact the mixed Venetian rowing regatta, with crews made up of men and women, a real rarity in these competitions in the lagoon.
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It is not authentic Festa del Mosto, however, without the music of the Sant'Erasmo band, the tamping of the square and the traditional blessing of the farm wagons which represents the moment of thanksgiving for the agricultural year that has just ended.
The Festa del Mosto is also an opportunity to discover Sant'Erasmo Venice, the so-called garden island perfect to be explored by bike or on foot even if, given its size, it is the only one in the lagoon where transit by car is allowed (but to residents only). It is splendid to visit with the autumn lights, from the Maximilian Tower in the southernmost part of the island a few steps from the Bacan beach, to the scenic Christ Church with its original facade. What will remain in your heart, however, will be that rural and placid atmosphere that you breathe just a few minutes by vaporetto from Piazza San Marco.
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