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Laguna sud di Venetia 
From Venice to Chioggia
Naviglio Brenta
Fiume Brente
Fiume Bacchiglione

From Venice to Chioggia
with mixed feelings, we are leaving Venice. We enjoyed its cultural heritage and its beauty, especially by night, but its hype was a bit much.... 
Over the Canale di Fusina we get to the mouth of the Naviglio Brenta. This waterway brings us over Mira to Padua. It is well known for the uncountable, gorgeous mansions along the way but it offers, with its locks, many swing- and lift bridges a diversified navigation to skippers anyhow. Bridge guards are here, not like their colleagues in the northeast of Italy, almost always ready and waiting times are therefore short. After crossing the Brenta we get over the Canale Piovegio into the proud, old university town of Padua. There is no port but one can tie up just in front of the medieval town lock.
It would be nice to go down the Brenta directly to Chioggia. But unfortunately it is locked by a power station just below the crossing with the Naviglio. This means that we have to go back the entire stretch until Fusio (from its mouth, south of Chioggia it is navigable till about 300 m before the confluence!!!)Back in Fusio we navigate on the Canale Malamocco towards Marhera de Porto di Malamocco. We stay then on the Canale Pelestrina which brings us over the Canale di Camoran into Chioggia, the biggest fishermen's port of Italy.
It's a lovely, colourful town, something like a small, comfortable Venice with much less tourists!
In the south of Chioggia we have, over the lock "Conca grande di Chioggia", a connection to the rivers Brenta and Bacchaglione. And from there, the Canale di Valle brings you to the delta of the Po.
Brenta
A part from the marinas just at the beginning from the Adriatic Sea, it does not offer any tie ups. Its underflow can't really be called a river. From the barrier, south of Stra, to its mouth, it's straight and has high banks all along.
This also applies more or less for the Bacchiglione. It is limitedly navigable until Bovolenta but doesn't offer any infrastructures along the water.