Murano Excursion: a Tour Guide in the Island of Glass
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Murano, Burano, Torcello are the most famous Venetian Islands that each tourist want to visit when he comes in Venice
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venezia noleggi imbarcazioni proposes excursions to the Murano Island.
You can choose between three different type of excursion to the Murano
island:
- a half day Venice Island
Excursion to visit Murano, Burano and Torcello island
- a full day Venice Island Excursion to visit Murano, Burano and
Torcello island
- private excursion to the Murano Island
A half day Murano Island Excursion
Embark in our boats and
departure to Murano excursion. This island is famous all over the
world for its glass factory. The visit will take approximately 40 minutes.
The second stop will be the island of Burano, a fishermen's island famous
for it's lace (40 minutes stop). From here it only takes 10 minutes to
reach the island of Torcello, one of the earliest center of civilization
in the lagoon. You will visit the cathedral with its magnificent mosaics
and the church of St. Fosca (40 minutes stop). Back to the starting point.
A full day Murano Island Excursion
Embark in our boats and departure to Murano excursion. The
Murano island is famous all over the world for its glass factory. During
this excursion you can visit to Basilica of SS.Maria and Donato,
built in the XII century in romanic-bizantine style. The visit will take
aproximatly 1.30.
The second stop will be the island of Burano, famous for it's lace. The
visit will last 2.30, you can go places the island and have a lunch. From
here it only takes 10 minutes to reach the island of Torcello, one of the
earliest centre of civilization in the lagoon, and episcopal centre since
the VII century. You will visit the cathedral with its magnificent mosaic
and the church of St. Fosca (1.15 stop). Back to the starting point.
Murano Island
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.
The best way to visit Murano Island is to take part in a Murano
excursion with tourist guide. And so what wait for! We wait you!!!
