Mira is the drawing room of the Brenta Riviera: along the waterway where Venetian patricians travelled to their summer villas by barge, the town keeps signature residences including La Malcontenta — Palladio's Villa Foscari, a UNESCO treasure — and Villa Widmann with its Baroque parties. The historic burchiello boat still plies the Venice-Padua route, lock after lock.
The other soul is artisan: the Riviera is the luxury footwear district producing for the world's great fashion houses. Between a bike ride on the embankment and a fish osteria, Venice stays twenty minutes away — without its prices.
Near Mira
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
