Jesolo Moonlight Half Marathon (Venice) Venice, Italy   May 16, 2026

The course of the Jesolo Moonlight Half Marathon changes but not its fascinating ingredients: sea, water canals, sunset, white beaches and night life. The half marathon under the moonlight, organized by the Venicemarathon Club and by the Municipality of Jesolo, completely renews its format, designing a new sliding and flat course but above all making the pre and post race services handier.

The Jesolo Moonlight Half Marathon will not be a point to point race anymore, but a lap of 21K that will develop all in the north-east of Jesolo. It starts and arrives at the same point, in Piazza Milano, easily accessible by car and with many car parks at athletes’ disposal. The Moonlight Village will also be built here and all the services dedicated to the athlete will be set up, such as changing rooms, bag storage, toilets and showers. In this way, the race kit can also be collected until few moments before the start.

The new course will start from via Danimarca and take via Papa Luciani, two very large road that will make the start more fluid and smooth and that will lead the athletes in the countryside just outside Jesolo. At this point the course will run along the Canale Cavetta , then cross the camping areas along via Corer and return to the Canale again up to Cortellazzo. Here they will run alongside the picturesque mouth of the river Piave with its tourist port, and then return to Lido di Jesolo along the green avenues of the luxuriant pine forest and then through via Belgio and via Oriente. Finally, the beach by the sea, with its white beaches and romantic sunset colors, will accompany the last kilometers of athletes before crossing the finish line in via Danimarca, where the lights and music of Jesolo’s nightlife and above all the usual warmth of the public will welcome the finisher.

Even the Moonlight 10K will follow the same organizational logistics of the sister race, with start and Finish in via Danimarca and Piazza Milano as the center of services.

“For our city, Moonlight Half Marathon is confirmed as an event always full of surprises and novelties” – said the Mayor of Jesolo, Valerio Zoggia – “The all-Jesolo course of this year, will embrace the north-east of the city, between lights of Piazza Milano, the beach and the green of the pinewood, maintaining the landscape charm that has always distinguished the race, contributing at the same time, to enrich also this important part of our city. Thanks to the President of Venicemarathon Club, Piero Rosa Salva who has always believed in this beautiful initiative”. “We are very happy to be able to offer the fans of running a new Moonlight Half Marathon” – commented the president of the Venicemarathon Club Piero Rosa Salva – “who will confirm the unique and unmissable appeal of our race but at the same time improve all services for participants . We are confident that the improvements will be effective and welcome to the ever increasing number of registrations. We are now grateful to the Municipal Administration of Jesolo for the immediate and fundamental adhesion to this new project, which wants to contribute to further enhancing the city of Jesolo.”