Festa del Mosto – One more reason to visit Venice in October

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 Festa di 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.

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.