• Travelsignposts Home
  • Country Guides
  • City Guides
  • River Cruises
  • Europe Photos
  • About Us

Italy Travel

  • Home
  • Trip Planner
  • Photos
  • Videos
  • Map
  • Weather
  • Site Map
  • Destinations
  • Shopping
  • Sightseeing
  • Food
  • Getting around
  • Useful facts
  • News & Events
You are here: Home / Destinations / Murano: Live from the Island of the Glass Makers

Murano: Live from the Island of the Glass Makers

By Tony Page Leave a Comment

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)

Murano Glass is world-famous, but does the island match up to the Chandeliers?

Murano’s reputation as a centre for glassmaking dates from 1291, when the Venetian Doge, frightened that the foundries’ fires would destroy the city’s largely wooden buildings, ordered the glassmakers to move to the island. Murano glass is still synonymous with Venetian glass, so Tony and Helen Page decided to see what it was all about…

“And now we’re in Murano, home of, yes, you’re looking at it, glass. This is an interesting piece, quite large and quite effective. It’s at one end of the village, I’m not sure what it’s called, all I know is that the island is called Murano …. So, this is one end of the canal, and I’ve just walked past the other end, from Colonna.

Get the Right Vaporetto

“As you can see, there’s quite a few people around. This is facing back the other way. Later on I’ll show you around the corner where you get a long view down to the vaporetto station, Murano Colonna. There’s another station which we will be going to when we take the vaporetto for Burano.

Frankly, there’s not that much on either side of the main canal and the main street. On the fondamente are basically what you’d expect, glass galleries, various souvenir shops and a few restaurants.

“And here as promised is a shot down the main canal, which is in effect the main street of Murano. This is taken from one of the few bridges across the canal, a bit further down from where I was before. As you can see – I’ll zoom in here – you can see the main island of Venice…well I’m sorry you can’t, that is in fact the island of the cemetery. The main island of Venice is not visible from here, it’s about a few hundred metres the other side of this church.

Glass Sculptures Everywhere

Murano Glass Sculpture

Murano Glass Sculpture

“Right, as we’re not intending to eat here I’ll show you where the entrance to the next ferry is: just here. And if you look closely you can see Helen waiting with my bag for me.

“Okay, that’s the bridge where I was and when we sweep around here, we see yet another piece of glass sculpture and, of course, the inevitable tourist posing in front of it. I don’t know, it must be something about me, that just attracts them. Well, what do you think about this? I’ll just walk around and see if we can catch it from a different light angle.

A Rather Striking Lighthouse

“This is the main street to the ferry; strangely peaceable here. It’s less frantic although let’s face it there are hell of a lot of tourists. Well, apart from a rather nice restaurant at the end of this street, you’ll see in the distance a rather striking lighthouse. So I’ll make my way towards that and see what we have to see. I wonder if you can climb it.

“So I strode down towards the lighthouse and found the Giardino Italia, the Italian Garden, which not surprisingly, this being Murano, is made of glass. Nevertheless, it’s quite spectacular.”

See more photos of Murano at Travelsignposts Murano album Here.

For more information about Venice, see our Venice Trip Planner Here.

Map of Murano

Things to do in Venice

Click here to get a free PDF of this post

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)

Related

Filed Under: Destinations Tagged With: chandeliers, glass sculptures, glassmakers, Murano, Murano glass, Venetian glass

avatar

About Tony Page

Tony Page is a professional writer and photographer and runs Travelsignposts with his wife Helen.

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

You can also find us on

  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Latest Additions

  • Giant Street Art adds spice to Rome’s Creative Scene
  • How to make Orecchiette pasta – The Favourite Ears of Puglia
  • Dinner in the Lair of a Giant Octopus!
  • Grandstand View of Il Campo, Siena
  • A Unique Tableware Find in Venice

Plan and Book Your Trip


eNews and Updates

feedburner Sign up now to get emailed news as well as other site updates!

Get the Guerrilla Travel Photography ebook here now!
City Guides
Country Guides
River Cruises

Who is behind Travelsignposts?

Helen and Tony Page at Singapore Changi Airport

We're Helen and Tony Page, and we love travelling - lucky as we've been doing it for the last few decades!

Tony has long been a professional photographer and writer, but Helen now writes most of the posts and takes a lot of photos herself!

Travelsignposts is our main travel planning site, but we've just launched Travelsignposts China and Tony also runs the Travelsignposts Photo and Guerrilla Travel Photography web sites, as well as publishing the Take Better Digital Photos and Guerrilla Travel Photography eBooks.

Read more about Helen and Tony or contact them.

Other Countries

  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Bulgaria
  • Croatia
  • Czech Republic
  • Devon & Cornwall
  • England
  • Estonia
  • Europe (General)
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Ireland
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Portugal
  • Scotland
  • Spain
  • Switzerland
  • Turkey
  • Ukraine

Resources

  • Take Better Digital Photos eBook Take Better Digital Photos eBook
  • Take Better Digital Photos Free eCourse
  • Travel Signposts Photo – our main travel photography site
  • Guerrilla Travel Photography eBook Guerrilla Travel Photography eBook

Copyright © 2022 ·Lifestyle Pro Theme · Genesis Framework by StudioPress · WordPress · Log in

Get a free PDF of this post!
Just enter your email address below and we'll send it to you immediately.

Please enter your Email Address