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Lido di Jesolo – Italy

Italy World Places August 2009 16 photos

Lido di Jesolo, the Adriatic beach resort near Venice, on a bright summer day. The town is a grid of white hotels and shady avenues of umbrella pines, with shops and a few tall towers rising above the sunshades.

On the beach there are rows of blue-striped umbrellas, sunbathers on wide sand, kites that fill the sky with colour, and a cart with gelati and granite. Long wooden breakwaters run out into the calm water, with swimmers wading around them and a pirate-ship boat for the tourists. It is an easy, slow place, built entirely for the sea.

Shopping street lined with umbrella pines, pedestrians and parked vansQuiet pine-lined avenue with dappled shade and hotel balconiesView over umbrella pines and low hotels from a balconyCrowded beach with swimmers in the shallows and a breakwater beyondMan carrying colourful kites on the sand with sunbathers behindKites flying above rows of umbrellas and beachfront hotelsRippled sand covered in footprintsChain of colourful kites rising above sunbathers on the beachIce cream and granita cart on the beach under a blue skyWooden breakwater stretching into calm water with people walking on itSwimmers wading in the sea with breakwaters and hotels beyondPirate ship tour boat anchored beside a breakwaterStrip of sea between hotel balconies, with a hotel sign belowTall dark glass tower rising behind sunshades and beach hotelsNarrow gap between white hotels with flags and a glimpse of seaBlue-striped umbrellas and empty sunloungers in front of hotels
All from Italy