The best running trails around Quarto D'Altino

Altino: inhabited since the Bronze Age, it was a sanctuary of the Veneti in the Iron Age. The god Altino/Altno was worshipped here. The city of Altinum was built in the Roman Republic and had 20-30,000 inhabitants. It was located surrounded by canals near the lagoon and was an important trade hub between sea and land. Under Emperor Claudius (15 BC-46/47 AD), the Via Claudia Augusta was built, which had its starting point here and ran via Trento, Reschen, Fernpass and Augsburg to the Danube (near Donauwörth). In addition, it met the Via Annia from Aquileia here in Altinum. In 452, Attila destroyed the city, and subsequently, it served as a quarry for the city of Venice. The museum, including the archaeological excavations, is a must for history enthusiasts and highly recommended. Allow a good 2 hours for it.

Beautifully scenic spot with a small navigation basin from which the Simoncello river and the dirt cycle path leading to the new cable-stayed bridge and the Altino Archaeological Museum depart, and from which one takes the Path of Memory.

From here, at the start of the Via Claudia Augusta (which in Roman times reached Augsburg in Bavaria), the Path of Memory begins, but also the beautiful 5 Rivers tour.

The Museum of Altino preserves the legacy of what was one of the richest cities of the Roman Empire, the fundamental ancestor of Venice. Located between the countryside and the lagoon, the museum's path winds through exceptional finds: finely crafted glassware, floor mosaics, and funerary stelae stand out, narrating the life of a crucial commercial port along the Via Annia. The exhibition is not limited to objects, but also extends to the external archaeological area, where the traces of the urban gates and the decumanus maximus allow one to perceive the grandeur of the ancient center. It is a place of silence and beauty, where the lagoon landscape provides a backdrop to a millennia-old story that explains how, from the ashes of this earthly power, the civilization of water could be born.

Located in a strategic position between the Venetian mainland and the course of the Sile river, Trepalade is a hamlet of Quarto d'Altino that preserves a discreet charm linked to the civilization of the waters. This village is distinguished by the presence of ancient hydraulic artifacts, such as the historic gates and supports that once regulated commercial traffic towards the Venice lagoon. The proximity to the archaeological area of Altino enriches the territory with a deep historical value, while the surrounding natural landscape is dominated by the placid beauty of the Sile Park. Today, Trepalade is a beloved destination for those who travel the Greenway, offering a timeless atmosphere where the history of river trade intertwines with rural tranquility and regenerating cycle paths.

The Musestre river and its banks offer a suggestive glimpse of the Venetian countryside between the provinces of Treviso and Venice. Historically known as the "washerwomen's river", the Musestre originates in Breda di Piave and concludes its course by flowing into the Sile river precisely at the hamlet of Musestre, in the municipality of Roncade.

Beautiful river that crosses the small hamlet of Musestre.

The National Archaeological Museum of Altino is a jewel set in the northern lagoon of Venice, guardian of the memory of one of the most important Roman cities of the Adriatic. The exhibition path winds through artifacts that narrate the daily life, the trades, and the sumptuous necropolises of a center that was the progenitor of Venice itself. Through glass, mosaics, and statues, the visitor discovers the evolution of a river emporium where Roman elegance meets the wild nature of the lagoon. The modern building, created from ancient granaries, overlooks the archaeological area directly, allowing visitors to walk among the remains of the Via Annia and perceive the breath of a millennial history that still emerges from the fertile land today.