Venice asks you to experience its beauty on foot or from the water. Walk across bridges and through narrow streets, step inside churches and palazzi, stop for cicchetti at a bàcaro no bigger than a hallway, and watch the light change across the lagoon. There is something absorbing about finding your way through a city where art, architecture and everyday life unfold around almost every corner.

Beyond Venice, the mood changes. The Euganean Hills rise from the plains in a landscape of vineyards, woodland and old hill towns. At their foot, Abano and Montegrotto Terme have drawn people to their naturally hot mineral waters since ancient times, and the thermal tradition remains very much part of life here today.

Venice and the Euganean Hills each change your pace in a different way. In car-free Venice, you walk, take to the water and hear the usual soundtrack of a city give way to footsteps, church bells and water against stone. In the Euganean Hills, thermal spa stays make the most of the region’s naturally warm mineral waters, with green landscapes and centuries-old bathing traditions inviting you to slow down further. Come for the beauty and culture, stay for the thermal waters, and leave restored by both.