Murano Island
The island of Murano, located not far from the Fondamente Nuove, is known all over the world for its artistic glass production. In the Murano furnaces glass-blowers maestri, following a century-old tradition, create beautiful artistic glass objects.
Basilica di Santa Maria e San Donato
It seems to have been founded in the 7th century, about the time of the arrival of the first refugees on the islands of the Lagoon, and was dedicated to St. Mary, as appears in a document dated 999, but then took the name of San Donato after the...
Chiesa di Santa Maria degli Angeli
Founded in the 12th century with its vast and famous monastery, it was rebuilt in the 1500s. on the right-hand wall can be seen “Madonna in Gloria” by Jacopo Palma the Younger from the end of the 16th century. A Renaissance piece which has long...
Chiesa di San Pietro Martire
Founded in 1348 in honour of St. John the Evangelist, it was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1511 and dedicated to St. Peter the Martyr. It was closed in1808 and stripped of its pictorial furnishings, reopened five years later and redecorated with...
Museo dell'Arte Vetraria
Established by abbott Vincenzo Zanetti at the end of the 19th century to show the importance, beauty and fame that the glasswork of Murano reached over the centuries. It holds nearly 5000 pieces from the far past to the present day. There is an...
Palazzo Da Mula
The summer residence of the Venetian patricians. The facade features large Gothic windows and Veneto-Byzantine patere and panels from the 12th and 13th centuries. It is one of the few palazzi which escaped the restructuration of the island in the...
