Holiday apartment in Stra: villas, parkland and shoemaking culture

Holiday apartment in Stra amid villas and shoemaking culture

If you are looking for a holiday apartment in Stra, you can organise your stay around specific themes: villas, parkland, the history of shoemaking, and excursions by bicycle or boat. Villa Foscarini Rossi is an architectural complex in Stra on the Brenta. Villa Foscarini was built between 1617 and 1635. For families who want to combine culture and activity, these themes offer various starting points for planning each day. This means you can choose your location based not only on the type of accommodation, but also on the activities you have planned for each day.

Parkland and museums

The park of Villa Pisani occupies an entire bend of the Naviglio del Brenta and covers 11 hectares. This area gives a concrete sense of the park’s landscape character. Villa Loredan was built at the beginning of the 16th century by the Venetian noble Loredan family; it includes a chapel and a large park. If you want to combine different interests when travelling with children, you can consider whether historic architecture and landscape should be the focus of your holiday when choosing a holiday apartment or holiday home in Stra.

The Shoe Museum is located in the 17th-century Villa Foscarini Rossi in Stra. It houses a collection of more than 1,500 designer and luxury models of women’s shoes. By prior reservation, the Museo della Calzatura offers guided tours in Italian, English and French. The two museums therefore have different focuses: the Shoe Museum represents an extensive collection of models, while the Museo della Calzatura offers guided tours by prior reservation. You can take these specific focuses into account when planning a cultural day and choosing your accommodation.

The Monumento ai Calzaturieri was inaugurated on 23 April 2017 in Piazza Marconi in Stra.

Cycling, boating and cities

A regional bus line connects Padua and Venice or Mestre via Stra. When choosing your accommodation, you can therefore also consider excursions to the connected cities in addition to culture and parkland.

The cycling route “Ring between the Riviera del Brenta and Terra dei Tiepolo” starts and ends at the car park on Via Fossolovara in Stra. The regular “Il Burchiello” service includes an option combining a half-day boat trip from Stra to Oriago and back with half-day bicycle tours. For active days, you can plan these two activities separately or combine them when choosing a holiday apartment or holiday home as your base.

Your choice between a holiday apartment and a holiday home can therefore be guided by your preferred combination of architectural heritage, parkland, shoemaking history, cycling and boating. The different themes help you shape your stay according to the pace you want: with historic villas and museums, with Villa Pisani’s 11-hectare park, or with a plan in which bus connections, the cycling route and the boat trip play a greater role.

More destinations

For more travel ideas: Caorle, Lido Di Venezia, Eraclea, Mira, Noventa Di Piave, Jesolo, Musile Di Piave, Santa Maria Di Sala.

To the higher-level travel overview: Venice.