Tour departs from Ponte della Paglia, and tours lasts 3 hours.
Tour must be reserved with 3 working days advance.
Tour price: ?€ 21.50 for person.

ITINERARY

Murano is a small island lying on the Venice lagoon, a commercial port as far back as the 7th Century. In 1291, the Venetian Republic ordered glassmakers to move their foundries to Murano because the glassworks represented a fire danger in Venice, whose buildings were mostly wooden at the time, and, with time, they became the best glassmakers of the world.

Murano is still an exporter of traditional products like mirrors and glassware, and its factories produce modern items such as faucet handles, glass lampshades, and electric chandeliers, as well as paperweights, glass beads and necklaces, knickknacks, and items of glass jewelry. The Glass Museum, located in the Palazzo Giustinian, holds samples of glass from Egyptian times through the present day, and the displays show how the art and manufacture of glass developed over the centuries.

Not to miss the Church of Santa Matia e San Donato, simple in the outside but richly decorated inside, with a marble-and-mosaic floor laid in 1140.

BURANO

Located just north of Venice, the island is known throughout the world for it specialty: Burano lace. Burano's colorful houses were painted these brilliant colors out of the fishermen's desire to see their own houses from far out at sea. Today Burano is a marvelous island, a heaven that enchants the tourists, not only for the historical themes, but even for its charm, for the unreal silence of its mornings, for the happy bawling and for the peculiar local dialect, that has the characteristic to lengthen, almost to double, the consonants.

The historic traces that the island still preserves are almost all contained in the ample church devoted to S. Martin, a construction of the XVI century. The big square in front of the church is dedicated to Baldassarre Galuppi, who was the famous musician called the Buranello, pride of Burano. The Islands houses the Lace Museum which tells the epic story of the Burano lace makers.

Of all the islands of the lagoon, Torcello, the so-called Mother of Venice, offers the most charm. It was the first settlement in the lagoon, during the 5th Century. A legend tells that St. Mark stopped here during his journey to Aquileia; and it is still a mystery the discovery, in 1983, of an Egyptian Isis and Horus little statue. The cathedral, Santa Maria Assunta, is a masterpiece, with its gorgeous floor and mosaics: the original church was built in the 7th century; the bell tower was added in 11th century, and the interior has a byzantine structure and is enricihed with mosaics.

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