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Italy-Venice's lagoon small islands, 5p.m. to 9 a.m.

79 images Created 6 Nov 2009

VENETIAN LAGOON SMALL ISLANDS NIGHTLY LIFE.
Probably one of the most visited placet on the Earth, Venice, but few tourists explore the Lagoon small islands at night. Under the light of the moon, when along the narrow canals of Murano, Burano and Torcello local people meets at the cafés and the maintenance workers of the famous Murano's glass factories work all the night for the next day. Murano is famous for its glass making from 1291, when the glassmakers of Venice were forced to move to Murano due to the risk of fires. For centuries Murano's glassmakers held a monopoly on quality glassmaking and weren't allowed to leave the Venice republic. Today the artisans of Murano are still employing these centuries-old techniques and some of the historical glass factories in Murano are among the most important brands of glass in the world but the increasing concurrence of the cheaper Far East production more and more menaces this Venetian traditional industry. The tiny island of Burano scarcely is one of the most colorful places anywhere, with his brightly painted houses lining the narrow canals. The island rose in importance in the 16th century, when local women began making lace with needles exported across Europe. Few women still make lace in the traditional manner as it is extremely time-consuming and therefore expensive and cannot struggle against Far East cheaper laces. Torcello, a sparsely populated island (only 16 people) at the northern end of the Venetian Lagoon is considered the oldest continuously populated region of Venice. After the downfall of the Roman Empire Torcello was one of the first lagoon islands to be populated by Veneti who fled from the barbarian invasions and rapidly grew in importance as a political and trading centre. In the 10th century it had a population of at least 10,000 people and was much more powerful than Venice but the lagoon around the island gradually became a swamp and from the 12th century the population abandoned the island.

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  • Murano island: Franco Rossi, the "omo de note" ("night's watcher") of the Formia Glass Factory, has the heavy responsability to inspect the furnaces fires during the night and prepare the glass for the next day's activity.
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  • Murano island: Franco Rossi, the "omo de note" ("night's watcher") of the Formia Glass Factory, has the heavy responsability to inspect the furnaces fires during the night and prepare the glass for the next day's activity.
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  • Murano island: Franco Rossi, the "omo de note" ("night's watcher") of the Formia Glass Factory, has the heavy responsability to inspect the furnaces fires during the night and prepare the glass for the next day's activity.
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  • Murano island: Franco Rossi, the "omo de note" ("night's watcher") of the Formia Glass Factory, has the heavy responsability to inspect the furnaces fires during the night and prepare the glass for the next day's activity.
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  • Murano island: Franco Rossi, the "omo de note" ("night's watcher") of the Formia Glass Factory, has the heavy responsability to inspect the furnaces fires during the night and prepare the glass for the next day's activity.
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  • Murano island, the furnace fires still work aòll the night.
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  • Murano island. Formia glass factory, maintenance workers inspect the furnaces at late afternoon.
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  • Murano island. Formia glass factory, maintenance workers inspect the furnaces at late afternoon.
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  • Murano island. Formia glass factory, maintenance workers inspect the furnaces at late afternoon.
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  • Murano island. Formia glass factory.
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  • Murano island. Formia glass factory., the local Great Canal at night, empty of tourists. In the night in Murano's village live only the local families, working with glass factories and daily tourism.
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  • Murano island. Formia glass factory., the local Great Canal at night, empty of tourists. In the night in Murano's village live only the local families, working with glass factories and daily tourism.
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  • Murano island. Fondamenta dei Vetrai along the local Great Canal. At  early morning the workers deliver murano glasses at the shops before the tourist arrive by boat from Venice.
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  • Murano island. Fondamenta dei Vetrai along the local Great Canal. At  early morning the workers deliver murano glasses at the shops before the tourist arrive by boat from Venice.
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  • Murano island. Fondamenta dei Vetrai along the local Great Canal. At  early morning the workers deliver murano glasses at the shops before the tourist arrive by boat from Venice.
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  • Murano island. Great Canal, Fondamenta dei Vetrai.
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  • Murano island. Great Canal, Fondamenta dei Vetrai.
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  • Murano island. Great Canal, Fondamenta dei Vetrai.
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  • Murano island. Formia glass factory., the local Great Canal at night, empty of tourists. In the night in Murano's village live only the local families, working with glass factories and daily tourism.
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  • Murano island. Great Canal, Fondamenta dei Vetrai.
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  • Murano: a old glass factory transformed in a private owned small contemporary art museum where focus is the glass art collections of Studio Berengo of the art merchant Adriano Berengo.
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  • Murano: a old glass factory transformed in a private owned small contemporary art museum where focus is the glass art collections of Studio Berengo of the art merchant Adriano Berengo.
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  • Murano: a old glass factory transformed in a private owned small contemporary art museum where focus is the glass art collections of Studio Berengo of the art merchant Adriano Berengo.
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  • Murano: a old glass factory transformed in a private owned small contemporary art museum where focus is the glass art collections of Studio Berengo of the art merchant Adriano Berengo.
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  • Murano island. A glassmaker in the furnace of Adriano Berengo's workshop.
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  • Murano island. A glassmaker in the furnace of Adriano Berengo's workshop.
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  • Murano: un maestro vetraio al lavoro nell'atelier di Adriano Berengo.
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  • Burano island. Before dawn the last fishermen sail with their small boat for their reserved areas of the Venice's Laguna.
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  • Burano island. Before dawn the last fishermen sail with their small boat for their reserved areas of the Venice's Laguna.
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  • Burano island, before dawn when the last fishermen sail with their small boat.
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  • Burano island, canals view at dawn.
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  • Burano island, canals view at dawn.
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  • Burano island, Stefano Costantini ("barocche") is one of the younghest fishermen of the local cooperative of this small island fishermen. Every fisherman has a reserved area in the local lagoon but because pollution and industry every years their work is more difficult to survive.
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  • Torcello island, the beautiful Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (founded in 639 and with much eleventh and 12th century Byzantine work) from Burano's island canal.
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  • Burano island. The village and St Martino church.
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  • Burano island, the local social club of the Democratic Party (center-left).
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  • Burano island, at the northern end of the Lagoon, is known for its lacework and its brightly-painted houses, popular with artists. Their colours follow a specific system originating from the golden age and to paint a home one must ask to the local authority for the colours permitted for that lot.
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  • Burano island, at evening the tourists come back to Venice and the local people goes to the coffees houses, restaurants, or simply to walk around and meet.
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  • Burano island, at evening the tourists come back to Venice and the local people goes to the coffees houses, restaurants, or simply to walk around and meet.
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  • Burano island, at the northern end of the Lagoon, is known for its lacework and its brightly-painted houses, popular with artists. Their colours follow a specific system originating from the golden age and to paint a home one must ask to the local authority for the colours permitted for that lot.
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  • Burano island, at evening the tourists come back to Venice and the local people goes to the coffees houses, restaurants, or simply to walk around and meet.
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  • Burano island, the main square with St Martino church. At evening the tourists come back to Venice and the local people goes to the coffees houses, restaurants, or simply to walk around and meet.
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  • Burano island, the main square with St Martino church. At evening the tourists come back to Venice and the local people goes to the coffees houses, restaurants, or simply to walk around and meet.
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  • Burano island, the main square with St Martino church. At evening the tourists come back to Venice and the local people goes to the coffees houses, restaurants, or simply to walk around and meet.
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  • Burano island, the main square with St Martino church. At evening the tourists come back to Venice and the local people goes to the coffees houses, restaurants, or simply to walk around and meet.
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  • Burano island, at evening the tourists come back to Venice and the local people goes to the coffees houses, restaurants, or simply to walk around and meet.
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  • Burano island, at evening the tourists come back to Venice and the local people goes to the coffees houses, restaurants, or simply to walk around and meet.
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  • Burano island, at evening the tourists come back to Venice and the local people goes to the coffees houses, restaurants, or simply to walk around and meet.
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  • Burano island, at evening the tourists come back to Venice and the local people goes to the coffees houses, restaurants, or simply to walk around and meet.
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  • Burano island, at evening the tourists come back to Venice and the local people goes to the coffees houses, restaurants, or simply to walk around and meet.
    em7113072.jpg
  • Burano island, at the northern end of the Lagoon, is known for its lacework and its brightly-painted houses, popular with artists. Their colours follow a specific system originating from the golden age and to paint a home one must ask to the local authority for the colours permitted for that lot.
    em7113074.jpg
  • Burano island, at the northern end of the Lagoon, is known for its lacework and its brightly-painted houses, popular with artists. Their colours follow a specific system originating from the golden age and to paint a home one must ask to the local authority for the colours permitted for that lot.
    em7113076.jpg
  • Burano island, at the northern end of the Lagoon, is known for its lacework and its brightly-painted houses, popular with artists. Their colours follow a specific system originating from the golden age and to paint a home one must ask to the local authority for the colours permitted for that lot.
    em7113088.jpg
  • Burano island, at the northern end of the Lagoon, is known for its lacework and its brightly-painted houses, popular with artists. Their colours follow a specific system originating from the golden age and to paint a home one must ask to the local authority for the colours permitted for that lot.
    em7113089.jpg
  • Burano island, at the northern end of the Lagoon, is known for its lacework and its brightly-painted houses, popular with artists. Their colours follow a specific system originating from the golden age and to paint a home one must ask to the local authority for the colours permitted for that lot.
    em7113104.jpg
  • Burano island, at the northern end of the Lagoon, is known for its lacework and its brightly-painted houses, popular with artists. Their colours follow a specific system originating from the golden age and to paint a home one must ask to the local authority for the colours permitted for that lot.
    em7113107.jpg
  • Burano island, at the northern end of the Lagoon, is known for its lacework and its brightly-painted houses, popular with artists. Their colours follow a specific system originating from the golden age and to paint a home one must ask to the local authority for the colours permitted for that lot.
    em7113109.jpg
  • Burano island, at the northern end of the Lagoon, is known for its lacework and its brightly-painted houses, popular with artists. Their colours follow a specific system originating from the golden age and to paint a home one must ask to the local authority for the colours permitted for that lot.
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  • Burano island, church of San Martino, with a leaning campanile. The church holds the relics of Santa Barbara.
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  • Burano island, at evening the tourists come back to Venice and the local people goes to the coffees houses, restaurants, or simply to walk around and meet.
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  • Burano island, at evening the tourists come back to Venice and the local people goes to the coffees houses, restaurants, or simply to walk around and meet.
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  • Burano island, at evening the tourists come back to Venice and the local people goes to the coffees houses, restaurants, or simply to walk around and meet.
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  • Burano island, at evening the tourists come back to Venice and the local people goes to the coffees houses, restaurants, or simply to walk around and meet.
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  • Burano: Berta, one of the last "historical" lacemakers for what the island of Burano was well knowed around the world. Now the majority of the crafts come from the Far East.
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  • Burano island, the painted house of a local artist  Bepi Suà.
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  • Torcello island, the eleventh and 12th century Church of Santa Fosca, which is surrounded by a porticus in form of a Greek cross. In the back the beautiful Cathedral of Santa Fosca founded in 639, with much eleventh and 12th century Byzantine work. Torcello was one of the first lagoon islands to be populated by  Veneti who fled the mainland to take shelter from the barbarian invasions. Torcello rapidly grew as a political and trading centre and in the 10th century had a population of at least 10,000 people and was much more powerful than Venice.
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  • Torcello island, the eleventh and 12th century Church of Santa Fosca, which is surrounded by a porticus in form of a Greek cross. In the back the beautiful Cathedral of Santa Fosca founded in 639, with much eleventh and 12th century Byzantine work. Torcello was one of the first lagoon islands to be populated by  Veneti who fled the mainland to take shelter from the barbarian invasions. Torcello rapidly grew as a political and trading centre and in the 10th century had a population of at least 10,000 people and was much more powerful than Venice.
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  • Torcello island, the eleventh and 12th century Church of Santa Fosca, which is surrounded by a porticus in form of a Greek cross. In the back the beautiful Cathedral of Santa Fosca founded in 639, with much eleventh and 12th century Byzantine work. Torcello was one of the first lagoon islands to be populated by  Veneti who fled the mainland to take shelter from the barbarian invasions. Torcello rapidly grew as a political and trading centre and in the 10th century had a population of at least 10,000 people and was much more powerful than Venice.
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  • Torcello island,  the beautiful Cathedral of Santa Fosca founded in 639, with much eleventh and 12th century Byzantine work. Torcello was one of the first lagoon islands to be populated by  Veneti who fled the mainland to take shelter from the barbarian invasions. Torcello rapidly grew as a political and trading centre and in the 10th century had a population of at least 10,000 people and was much more powerful than Venice.
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  • Torcello island,  the beautiful Cathedral of Santa Fosca founded in 639, with much eleventh and 12th century Byzantine work. Torcello was one of the first lagoon islands to be populated by  Veneti who fled the mainland to take shelter from the barbarian invasions. Torcello rapidly grew as a political and trading centre and in the 10th century had a population of at least 10,000 people and was much more powerful than Venice.
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  • Torcello island,  the beautiful Cathedral of Santa Fosca founded in 639, with much eleventh and 12th century Byzantine work. Torcello was one of the first lagoon islands to be populated by  Veneti who fled the mainland to take shelter from the barbarian invasions. Torcello rapidly grew as a political and trading centre and in the 10th century had a population of at least 10,000 people and was much more powerful than Venice.
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  • Torcello island, the eleventh and 12th century Church of Santa Fosca, which is surrounded by a porticus in form of a Greek cross. Torcello was one of the first lagoon islands to be populated by  Veneti who fled the mainland to take shelter from the barbarian invasions. Torcello rapidly grew as a political and trading centre and in the 10th century had a population of at least 10,000 people and was much more powerful than Venice.
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  • Torcello island was one of the first lagoon islands to be populated by  Veneti who fled the mainland to take shelter from the barbarian invasions. Torcello rapidly grew as a political and trading centre and in the 10th century had a population of at least 10,000 people and was much more powerful than Venice.
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  • The church of Santa Maria e San Donato is known for its twelfth century Byzantine mosaic pavement and is said to contain the relics of Saint Donatus of Arezzo as well as large bones behind the altar said to be the bones of a dragon slain by the saint.
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  • The church of Santa Maria e San Donato is known for its twelfth century Byzantine mosaic pavement and is said to contain the relics of Saint Donatus of Arezzo as well as large bones behind the altar said to be the bones of a dragon slain by the saint.
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  • The church of Santa Maria e San Donato is known for its twelfth century Byzantine mosaic pavement and is said to contain the relics of Saint Donatus of Arezzo as well as large bones behind the altar said to be the bones of a dragon slain by the saint.
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  • The church of Santa Maria e San Donato is known for its twelfth century Byzantine mosaic pavement and is said to contain the relics of Saint Donatus of Arezzo as well as large bones behind the altar said to be the bones of a dragon slain by the saint.
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  • Burano island, Stefano Costantini ("barocche") is one of the younghest fishermen of the local cooperative of this small island fishermen. Every fisherman has a reserved area in the local lagoon but because pollution and industry every years their work is more difficult to survive.
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  • Torcello island, the beautiful Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (founded in 639 and with much eleventh and 12th century Byzantine work) from Burano's island canal.
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