Writing about Venice and his Lagoon is not very simple. Venice and the Lagoon, and the other islands inside the lagoon, are part of a complex ecosystem with a lot of different aspects. The heterogeneity of what we call Venice is clearly visible by clicking on this link.
Mestre, on the mainland, is representing the Industrial / Commercial part of the area.
Venezia, the unique city, is the touristic, overcrowded aspect, as opposed to Lio Piccolo, the rural area of the Lagoon, where quiet and nature are the absolute protagonists.
Venice, the crowd and the parties of Carnival on one side (How do you celebrate Carnival? ), and the silence of the nature on the other, here on this beautiful post written by @AntonellaGr : Venice, the lagoon and sustainable tourism
Among them, the islands
If you look at the maps, you will see a lot of small islands in the Venetian Lagoon. On the Islands, one part of the Venetian economy still be active, even if some of them is abandoned now. Today we will reach Burano, the village on the island further away from Venice.
To reach Burano you have to use the ferry, which in Venice takes the place of the bus. In this link you can see [the route of the ferry](http://in%20this link you can see the route of the ferry)
The first Island that we see is San Michele, the Venetian Cemetery. Yes the cemetery is in a walled island. On the way, you will see the boat with Dante and Virgil, who point the way.
Next stop: Murano. Murano glass is well known worldwide (isn’t it, @TraciC ?) but, how many of you have an I dea of what Murano is?
We know the beautiful, colored, fragile products, and we love them.
As the glass is produced by fusion, you need furnaces to do the work. This is how Murano looks like, when you approach the island: a series of furnaces, a kind of post-Industrial city of a Mad Max movie.
And finally, slowly, you reach Burano. You will understand where Burano is when you will start to see a stain of colors over the water. Because this is what Burano is: a crayon box with the people living inside. You can get lost in the alleys and along the canals of this colorful little Venice. The sense of orientation is lost after a few minutes, in the alleys that seem all the same, even if each one is different from the other.
To find the way you look at the Bell Tower, that is clearly visible from every alley of the village. Inclined of an impossible angle, like a kind of Venetian “Pisa’s Tower”, it seems to be the only building that have his natural color.
And finally when, following the bell tower, you reach the main square, you understand what Burano is famous for. Do you know what they produce in this island?
In Burano they produce laces. In Burano they have always produced laces. The lace school was founded in Burano in 1875, and after three years it already had more than one hundred students. Even today, the Burano laces are among the most exclusive and expensive in the world.
There is more to write, and I have more photos to share, but the post is becoming quite long, so I will close here.
If you want to see more, you just need to ask, and I will upload more photo on the replies.
Are you excited now about visiting Burano?
This post is part of the Venetian Series. Here below some link for you to other post of the series:
- Venice, the lagoon and sustainable tourism by @AntonellaGr
- Venice as a snow globe, by @AntonellaGr
- Venezia, an unconventional view
- Venezia - Palazzo Ducale
- Italy - What to visit - Venice - Palazzo Mora - Biennale Arte 2017
- Venezia and its lagoon: spleen and Ideal close to Venice
- Venice Carnival
- Colorful Venice by @uavalentine
- The Flooding of Venice by @NatalkaR
Have a fun
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