Eraclea Mare

Description

Eraclea is a town and comune in the province of Venice, Veneto, Italy. It is located on the Adriatic coast. Eraclea Mare, one of the destinations of summer tourism on the Adriatic riviera, is together with Jesolo and Caorle one of the best known seaside resorts on the Venetian coast. A steady growth of foreign tourists, especially from Germany, has been recently recorded. Eraclea Mare is known for its pinewood and the "Lagoon of the Dead". The Lagoon stretches between the Eraclea`s Lido and the mouth of the Piave river and it is a sea-lagoon, being supplied with water only by the flood-tides. Still uncontaminated, the Mort is characterized by shallow and calm waters with a sandy and muddy seabed, rich in phytoplankton.