Venice islands: MURANO

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.

 

 

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