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A colorful and vibrant island located close to the city of Venice is the island of Burano. It is popular because all the buildings on the island are painted in such bright colors that from the coast, the view of Burano seems like a resurrected page from a coloring book, which a four-year-old child colored with all possible colors of pencils at the same time.

Brief description of Burano and Murano

Visit to the famous islands of the Venetian harbor: Murano and Burano, popular throughout the planet for their colorful views, unique history and craft customs. Let's look at each of them in more detail:

Burano Italy. It looks very exotic and is so attractive to tourists. The spirit of the Middle Ages has been preserved here: low colorful houses, boats moored along water canals, narrow streets with well-groomed beautiful courtyards. Fishing was mainly done by men. Well, women, starting from the sixteenth century, began to weave lace. Now the island of Burano in Venice is a source of rare dresses made from Burano lace, which are adored by ladies of all ages.
Murano in Italy(attractions). The city is much larger than Burano, consisting of five small islands. In the 13th century, all glass factories from Venice were moved to the island of Murano, Venice, in the hope of preserving all the secrets of glass production. The only attractions worth seeing are the in-house production of fragile samples and the finished masterpiece. In Murano (Italy) glass objects can be found to suit every taste and even color.

Location, how to get from Venice to Burano Island

The island of Burano is considered a remote quarter of Venice, located eight kilometers from the city center of Venice.
Burano consists of four small islands, which are separated by narrow channels - Rio Terranova to the east, Rio Pontinello to the west and Rio Zuecca to the south. In the past there was a fifth island - the canal leading to it was filled with earth and became Via Baldassare Galuppi. The street connected San Martino Sinistra and San Martino Destra.
You can get from Burano to Venice in 40 minutes by water bus (vaporetto). The city of Burano is inhabited by about 4 thousand people. Traveling around the island is only possible on foot.

History and sights

Raids of wild tribes forced the local population to leave their native land en masse and find refuge in calmer and safer places from enemies. One of the safe places was the island of Burano in Venice. Why the town received such a name is not known for certain. But there are two versions. The first version is considered to be a settlement on the island of noble aristocrats with the surname Buriana. According to the second version, the city got its name from another island located eight kilometers to the south, it is called Buranello.

The development procedure in Venice - Burano made it a prosperous commune. But at that moment the city was not given the full opportunity to develop independently, because it obeyed and depended on the island of Torcello.

And only in the sixteenth century, at the instigation of local residents who were engaged in lace weaving, the town finally acquired serious importance in the development of the infrastructure of Venice. Women adopted the method of weaving lace from the residents of the island of Burano, Cyprus, which at that time controlled it. Buran or Venetian lace became so famous in a very short time that it began to be supplied to most cities in Europe. Only aristocrats could afford lace. In the eighteenth century, the local nobility ordered the opening of the first school, where everyone could learn the art of lace making. Nowadays, only a few craftswomen use traditional lace weaving techniques.

Colored city

Sights of Burano:

The heart of the island of Burano is called the small house-museum of Signor Bepi Caramel (sweet seller). It was Bepi who was the first to paint his house in bright colors.

Additional Information! In past centuries, the city's population chose colors to paint their houses. Nowadays, you can repaint or paint your house only with the permission of the local authorities who choose the color to paint the house. This is done so that there are no houses of the same color nearby and fishermen at night from afar can recognize their house by color.

The central square of Burano is named after the famous composer Baldassarre Galuppi.
In the Buransky Museum of Lace, different types of lace weaving are displayed to visitors in quite large quantities.
Famous church in San Martino. Has a single side entrance. The construction of the temple was never completed, but since the fifteenth century, the architectural style has not undergone any changes.
The island will surprise you with its inclined or also called the “Leaning Tower of Pisa”. The height of the tower is 53 meters, and it was built in the seventeenth century.
House-museum of the famous artist Gianfranco Rosso. With its walls, which are hung with many paintings, it will tell the history of the city of Burano: how the people lived, what they did, important events in the life of the population, etc.

Important! You can buy local lace on the island, but the prices are very, very high. There you can also buy Chinese or Taiwanese lace gifts from the Venetians, at very reasonable prices, made exclusively for tourists.

Trip to Burano

Entertainment and excursions

A walk along the picturesque canals of Fondamenta Cao di Rio will delight you with the reflection of colorful houses in the water. There you can take beautiful and vivid pictures as a souvenir.
There are a large number of cats on the streets of the city.
You should definitely take part in the Venetian rowing. This is quite an extreme sport. It is also an official sport in Venice. Venetian rowing competitions are often held, where anyone can take part.
You can try buranelli shortbread cookies. The cookies are quite hard. It is made in the shape of a donut or the letter S.

At night, the city becomes almost deserted, with the exception of restaurants and bars, where a few people gather, and you can drink delicious red wine in relative silence.

Note! Not far from the vaporetto stop you can buy hot snacks until the night. Most often they are made from fish and seafood.

It is also worth visiting during excursions:

Mazzorbo Island is proud of its gardens and oldest vineyards. Wine from the island is exported all over the world. Also on the island is the Michelin-starred restaurant Venissa.
Torcello Island quite small and quiet. The oldest temple of Santa Maria Assunta is located there. In the central square of the island there is the Torcello Museum, and next to it there is a huge sculpture - the “throne of Attila”.
Located on the island San Servolo, convention center of Venice. There you can also visit an international university and museum.

Additional Information! Most often, museums on the islands are named after the names of the islands themselves on which they are located.

Giudecca Island in Venice. It is famous for its beautiful ancient temples, which were built according to the designs of the famous architect Andrea Palladio. On the island is the medieval church of Santa Eufenia. Nowadays, there is also a women's prison here, where gardening is organized for prisoners, and on weekends you can buy local fruits.
Lido islet has only 11 kilometers of sandbank. But it is quite famous for its large number of hotels. The beaches belong exclusively to hotels. Although there are two public beaches. It is on this island that the popular Venice Film Festival takes place, which attracts all the world's celebrities.
Fans of mysticism and horror will like it Poveglia Island. It is abandoned and is used as a zone of isolation from all kinds of epidemics (in past centuries) and diseases. Throughout its centuries-old history, the island of Poveglia has been considered cursed. And all the institutions that were built and opened on the island closed just as quickly.

Burano in the evening

Most visits to the island are carried out in the form of excursions of a couple of hours.
There are only 4 hotels on the island of Burano.
Don't visit Venice. in summer. It is very humid and hot at this time. There are also a huge number of tourists from all over the world, which will not allow you to fully enjoy all the beauty of this place.
How much does a subscription cost? A vaporetto ticket costs approximately 7 euros. But it’s cheaper and more profitable to buy a subscription for 20 euros and ride 24 hours from place to place.*

It is worth spending your time and special attention on the island of Burano, its history, the museum of unusual things made of lace, as well as the bright colorful houses. Only here you can try delicious Italian dishes and local colorful wine.

*Prices are current as of September 2018.

Although it lies 7 kilometers from the main Venice, it is considered a quarter of the city, albeit a remote one. At the same time, it has its own style of architecture, rhythm of life and even its own dialect.

We continue to travel on the Venetian Lagoon and its islands.

Traveled around Venice and shares his impressions

Forty minutes by vaporettoalong the waters of the lagoon, and you find yourself in a calm and quiet place, where you are greeted by brightly colored low houses, very reminiscent of toy houses, but in which real people live very leisurely.

There is no trace left of the crazy rhythm of the center of Venice. Tourists bring the bustle, but they too quickly get involved in the Buran rhythm, stop rushing and begin to enjoy the peace that seems to have been stretching over the local waters and nearby islands for centuries.

A little history

Four small islands separated by three main channels formed fishing village of Burano somewhere in the 6th century. There is an assumption that the first inhabitants of these islands were residents of the city of Altino who fled from the mainland from the Huns. There are two versions regarding the name of the village. The first - the name of the settlement was given by a certain noblefamily named Buriano.

According to the second version, the name Burano comes from the nameislet of Buranello, which lay 8 kilometers to the south. Burano was subordinate to the nearby island of Torcello, where the bishop's residence was then located and the administration of the islands was located.

For ten centuries the island village was engaged infishing, but from the 16th century they began to talk about Burano as the centerlace weaving. Venice controlled Cyprus at that time, and from there they brought the technology for making lace, which local women took up. The art of lacemakers was so high that their lace was easilycompeted with Dutch lace from Bruges.

Unfortunately, by the 19th century the fishery died out. They tried to revive it in the next century, but without success. The technologies were labor-intensive, but poorly paid, and no one wanted to engage in the ancient craft.

Bright colors of houseslocal residents includes not only the entire spectrum of the rainbow, but also a lot of shades. Each house has its own color, and to change it today, you need permission from the Venetian municipality, which will give (or not give) permission and approve the color.

History is silent about when the houses began to be painted in bright colors, but there are three versions of why this was done. According to the first version, the houses were painted so thatthe sailors saw their home from afar. (And in fact, on the approach to Burano, the first thing that will catch your eye is the colorful diversity of this area of Venice. You will see a riot of colors that lifts your spirits from afar in any weather.)

The second version says: the sailor residents painted their foreheads in the color of their house before going to the tavern, and according to the color of their forehead, they took him home, barely alive from drinking. The third version is more prosaic: the residents of Burano tried to highlight their city in this way.

Since 1923, Burano has moved from being an independent city to becoming a district of Venice, and the color palette has been useful in attracting tourists.

What to see in Burano

First of all, just wander around Burano. After getting off the vaporetto and together with the crowd of tourists, entering the town, turn off the tourist trail, get away from the lace shops,go to the embankment. The view of the lagoon will calm and pacify you. The colors of two- and three-story houses will take you back to childhood and put you in a good mood. Then you can go shopping and go to a cafe.

Lace Museum

Go to your locallace museum. You will learn the history of the craft and all stages of its development, you will be introduced to the technology of making lace.

It's open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.(November to March) and until 18.00(from April to October). The ticket costs 5 euros.

Church of San Martino

Stands on the squareChurch of San Martino, built at the end of the 16th - beginning of the 17th century. It is famous for the fact that it is the only church on the island, and for the fact that there is a 52-meter inclined bell tower nearby."Falling Campanile"with Burano is not as famous as, say, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, but in some ways it is inferior to it. Kept in the church"Calvary" by Giovanni Batista Tiepolo.

Entrance to the church is free.

It's open from 8.00 to 12.00 and from 15.00 to 19.00. On weekends and holidays until 18.30.

In the center of the square stands a small but quite interestingmonumentlocal celebritycomposer Baldassare Galuppi, a native of Burano, who not only had the nickname Buranello and wrote several successful opera buffes, but was also the court conductor of ourCatherine II, and teacher of the famous Russian spiritual composer D. Bortnyansky.

What to buy in Burano

Certainly, lace. But keep in mind that almost everything sold to Burano The lace is made in Southeast Asia. Otherwise it would cost many times more. That same ancient technology was simply given to Asian manufacturers. You will find a lot of products here: from cheap to very expensive, from nondescript to very high quality, from napkins to clothes. So you will have plenty to choose from.

Where to eat in Burano

On Burano there is also restaurants, osterias, and small cafes. Almost all of them are located on the main tourist cafe. From what can be recommended isTrattoria da Primo e Paolo: http://www.trattoria-primoepaolo.it/index.html. On the establishment's website you can view the menu. The prices are quite affordable.

However, before sitting in a restaurant, go around the island, you will find an establishment to your liking. The island of Burano lives with tourists, so everything here is arranged for their temptation and delight.

Where to stay in Burano

Finding places to stay is described in the article “ " To clarify, I will say that there are very few hotels on Burano. Eg,hotel "Casa sul Cielo di Burano » . Renting a room/apartment is also problematic. They exist, but they are few and far between, and they are quite expensive. But there is an exit- stay on the island.

How to get to Burano

From the Murano Faro stop to Murano on vaporetto no. 12you will reach Burano. They go twice an hour. Sailto Burano about 40 minutes.

One of the days of our week-long stay in Venice fell on our daughter’s birthday. She was turning 4 years old. We wanted to make this day bright, colorful and memorable, so we decided to visit probably the most colorful island in the world - Burano.

How to get to Burano from Venice?

The most popular way is:

Vaporetto N12 sails from the Fondamente Nove stop in northern Venice to Burano. Departs every 20 minutes. The journey takes about an hour. Makes several intermediate stops.

We lived a stone's throw from the Zattere stop in the southern Dorsoduro district of Venice. From there we took the N6 vaporetto and sailed to Lido Island. There we boarded a boat on line N14 to Burano. The journey takes approximately 1 hour 20 minutes. There is no vaporetto from the Lido, but a fairly large ship. He also makes several intermediate stops.

Because We lived in Venice for several days, so we bought vaporetto passes in advance on the Venezia Unica website. Travel to Burano is included in these passes. And so, a one-way ticket per person costs 7.5 euros.

Burano is a small island and you can explore it quickly enough. There are only a couple thousand local residents on the island. The main historical occupations: fishing for men, lace weaving for women. Now, probably, they are painting their houses in bright colors so that the flow of tourists who want to see and capture this beauty does not dry out). At the same time, all the exterior details are perfectly matched to the color combination: curtains, flowers, pots, doors, shutters...

Among the attractions in Burano are the Lace Museum and the Church of San Martino with paintings by Tiepolo. The island is also notable for its tilted campanile.

When approaching the island, our daughter perked up, because... As we approached the pier, bright, unusual houses were already visible.

Already quite tired of the concentrated beauty of Venice and the daily 20 km long walks, the unusual island attracted her.

It turned out to be easy to interest a little traveler in exploring the island - we went to look for a pink house of the right shade and thus walked around the entire island)

In advance, I identified several places for different tastes that I liked based on the description, menu and prices.

Fritto Misto (at the pier)
Devil Pizza Via San Mauro, 24, 30142

Trattoria al Gatto Nero Via Giudecca, 88 - 30142 [link]
Pizzeria Trattoria Leon Coronato, Piazza Baldassarre Galuppi, 314, 30142

We ended up going to the last pizzeria-trattoria for lunch.

We ordered 2 pastas, one with vongole, the second with bolognese. My daughter ate a little bit of everything + French fries + grissini breadsticks. We also ordered a decanter of mezzo litro white house wine and a liter bottle of water.

The food is simple, homemade, but tasty and a little cheaper than in Venice.

My daughter remembered this day and the island, which stood out as a bright spot in the general stream of Venetian beauty. As a souvenir of the island, we bought her a colored house and a pink magnet in the right shade)

The small island of Burano, 7 kilometers from Venice, is a real miracle in true Venetian style - bright, catchy and unforgettable. When you see it, an association with an “explosion at a paint factory” comes to mind - the houses located on it are so diverse and dazzling.

In fact, Burano is one of the administrative quarters of Venice, it is inhabited by about 2,700 people (mostly mature and old), but every day from dawn to dusk, thousands of tourists flood the island to see the most memorable and recognizable colorful houses in the world.

They say that Burano is slowly dying out - the few natives, unable to withstand the isolated position of the island and the lack of necessary infrastructure, leave it and move to the mainland or to Venice itself. Perhaps in the near future Burano will become a 100% tourist “Potemkin village” - with empty houses, several restaurants for tourists, souvenir shops and “selfie” stands in the most picturesque points of the village. However, fortunately, this has not happened so far, and if you arrive here early in the morning and preferably during the “low” tourist season, you can still see the everyday quiet life of this beautiful island. So you need to hurry...

There is no need to study information about Burano (as before meeting Venice) and specially prepare for a visit here - this is the case when exclusively visual pleasure comes to the fore. Just enjoy the small, brightly painted houses in all the colors of the palette, reflected in the neat canals, and the turquoise waters of the Adriatic surrounding the island.

If the neighboring and larger island of Murano is known throughout the world for its glassblowing production, then the symbol of Burano is lace, which has been skillfully made by local craftswomen since around the 16th century. Lace production has experienced its heyday and then its decline, becoming today a craft performed for the pleasure and sale of tourists. At Piazza Galuppi in Burano you can not only buy elegant napkins, shawls and lace clothes, but also sometimes see with your own eyes the process of working on these works of Venetian art. A special type of Buransky sweets is also produced on the island.

How to get to Burano:

In Venice, from the Fondamente Nove pier (located in the northern part of the island) by vaporetto along route No. 12, which connects Venice with the outlying islands of the lagoon.

Route 12 passes through the islands of Murano, Mazzorbo (connected to Burano by a bridge), Burano and then to Cavallino-Treporti.

The best time to depart for the islands is in the morning, at 7.40, 8.10, 8.40 or 9.10 (later the number of tourists increases exponentially). The interval between vaporettos on this route is 30 minutes.

The travel time to Burano is 40 minutes, which flies by completely unnoticed during this easy and pleasant boat trip.

How long does it take to walk around Burano: approximately 2 hours. If you plan to visit Murano and Burano on the same day, allow at least 4-5 hours (half a day). If you want to explore every corner and go to every church, then you need to allocate a whole day to two islands.

Burano itself is a rather small island, consisting of four parts separated by three canals. The first historical mention of it under the name “Burani” dates back to 840 AD, but the inhabitants of the ancient Roman city of Altino took refuge from the invasion of the barbarians of Attila and the Lombards on the islands of the lagoon, including Burano, much earlier.

Sights of Burano Island:

Lace Museum;

The Church of San Martino, lopsided in the manner of the Leaning Tower of Pisa;

Home, home and home again.

It is not known for certain where the tradition of painting houses in Burano in bright colors came from. According to one version, each color symbolized a particular family on Burano and was a kind of “distinctive sign”; according to another, boatmen painted houses in especially catchy colors to make it easier to find their own during the impenetrable fog from the Adriatic that often envelops the island. In Burano it was impossible (both before and today) to simply paint your house without permission - this required permission from the local authorities.

Before going to Burano, I personally had a feeling of a certain theatricality of this island and I was afraid to be disappointed when I saw something like a decorated prop scenery. In addition, professional photographs of Burano often look overly processed and it is unclear what he really is like. However, reality not only did not disappoint, but exceeded expectations many times over. All the photos in this article are without any processing, and there are many of them - simply because it is impossible to choose the best, all the views of the island of Burano are simply beautiful.

Perhaps the charm of Burano was revealed to us in full force due to the lack of crowds of tourists - in the photo the island is on the morning of January 6 - the lowest season for Venice: the Christmas holidays are already over, and the main winter event in Venice, the carnival, is still far away.

Some buildings are painted in an eye-catching style, some are designed in soft pastel colors, but there is never a feeling that the surrounding space is inharmonious.

Christmas Santas, or Babbo Natale in Italian, are still out and about delivering gifts to their recipients.

Incredibly beautiful reflections of houses in the canals.

Buranskoe lace is one of the main local souvenirs. Evil tongues claim that “the king is not real” - made in China. I don't know how true this is.

This house on the right, painted pale green, struck me on the spot and became, perhaps, the most memorable among all Buranovsky buildings.

In the central square of Baldassare Galuppi there is the 16th-century Church of San Martino (Chiesa di San Martino Vescovo) with a 53-meter bell tower - the campanile. The Campanile has already squinted quite a bit, which is visible, however, only from some angles.

Inside the church, pay attention to the work “The Crucifixion” by one of the “great Venetians” - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

The Nativity scene in the church was still undismantled.

Local residents, mostly elderly, rush about their business early in the morning, apparently in a hurry to get there before the tourists arrive. Although in any direction to Burano - a maximum of 10 minutes at a leisurely pace.

View of the neighboring island of Torcello.

“Explosion at a paint factory” - this is the headline for an article about Burano that came to my mind right here.

The constant Italian panties are dried, as expected, on the street.

The elderly Italian gentlemen decided to move the boat somewhere.

There are “Buranovsky Babushki”, and there are also “Buranovsky Seals”.

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When you get to the small island of Burano in Venice, you feel like you are in a fantasy fairy tale film. The fact is that all the houses here are painted in different colors, rich and bright. But it’s not just the colorful buildings that amaze: people come to admire the exhibits of the lace museum and look at the leaning tower of San Martino. Just wander through the picturesque streets with souvenir shops or have lunch at one of the best fish restaurants. Everything here is interesting and original.

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Until the 1st century, the island was part of the Ancient Roman Empire. People here lived and worked peacefully - men were mainly engaged in fishing, women - in housekeeping and raising children. But raids by barbarian tribes forced residents to leave their homes. They began to look for quieter places protected from enemies and settled in the most remote corners of the Venetian Lagoon. One of these places turned out to be an island located seven kilometers from Venice.

Why it was called Burano is not exactly established. It is assumed that representatives of a noble family with the same surname once lived here. Until 1923, the island had the status of a city, then it became one of the quarters of Venice, the area of the territory is slightly more than 21 hectares. Now it is permanently home to about 3,000 people. Located on islands separated by narrow channels that have access to the Venetian Lagoon.

Attractions

Since the XYI century, the city has specialized in the production of lace. Weaving technology, according to one version, was imported from the Eastern Mediterranean, from the island of Cyprus, which in those distant times was a colony of the Roman Empire. At first, ready-made lace products were brought from there, then the island’s residents learned how to weave themselves. But here they believe that lace was invented by the women of Burano.

In the warm season, they helped their husbands weave nets for fishing. In winter, trying to decorate their homes and clothes, they began to weave lace, which soon became famous throughout Europe. The peculiarity of Buransky weaving is that it is made using a unique technology - not with the help of bobbins, like, for example, Vologda, it is embroidered with needles.

One of the main attractions is dedicated to this craft - the lace museum “Museo dei Marletto” (“marletti” is how lace is called in Italy). It is located in Piazza Baldassare Galuppi in a former lace making school. The school closed in 1979 because young girls did not want to engage in painstaking and tedious work, and the ancient craft was becoming a thing of the past. The museum has an interesting program; first they show a video about the history of Venetian lace, its production, then visitors can view an interesting collection of the best products.

On the island you can buy things made by local craftswomen, but the prices are very high. If it is not possible to purchase original lace, they buy a fake made in China at quite affordable prices. There is a romantic version of the emergence of lace craft. One fisherman was engaged to a girl whom he loved very much. One day he went fishing. At sea, a siren tried to seduce a handsome guy with her bewitching singing, but the young man did not succumb to the seductress’s charms. For his perseverance and loyalty, the siren gave him an amazing lace woven from sea foam. The Lace Museum is located in Piazza Baldassare Galuppi. Opening hours are from 10.00 to 18.00, ticket price is 5.5 euros for adults, and 4 euros for children from 6 to 14 years old, free for children under 6 years old.

On the main square of the island there is another attraction that locals are proud of - the Leaning Tower of San Martino. The tower began to be built in the 10th century with donations from townspeople. Inside, the walls are decorated with frescoes by the artist Tiepolo. Due to the collapse of the ground, the bell tower began to deviate from the vertical.

Now its slope is 1.8 m, it seems that it is about to fall. The tower is saved from final destruction by the wall of another building on which it rests. When the bell tower began to lean, the city administration decided to restore it and correct the situation, but residents asked to leave everything as it is. Now it is a symbol of the quarter; the most beautiful view of it opens from the canal bridges.

It only takes a few hours to explore the islands. And wherever the tourist goes, all roads will lead to the main square of Baldassare Galuppi (Piazza Baldaccarre Galuppi). The square is named after the famous native of this place - Galuppi. Now few people know his name, but in the 18th century he would have been a famous master of Italian comic opera, conductor and organist. He was respectfully nicknamed "buranello".

Grateful residents erected a monument to the composer on the square named after him. Italy is famous for its cuisine - everyone knows risotto, lasagna and pizza, as well as fish dishes. It is believed that the best fish restaurant in Venice is on the island of Burano. It is called “Al Gatto Nero Da Ruggero”. Excellent cuisine, but you need to know that the cost of one dish is from 16 to 30 euros. True, the portions are very large - two people can get enough of one.

What is the origin of the tradition of painting houses different colors?

When they started painting houses with multi-colored paint, historians cannot say; only funny legends talk about it. One of them, not very plausible, is very popular with tourists. The island is surrounded by sea; naturally, many of the inhabitants were sailors. Finding themselves in their hometown after long voyages, the sailors went to taverns and other drinking establishments, where they heartily celebrated their safe arrival. In order for a sailor drunk to the point of insensibility to be brought home, the wives made a mark on their forehead that matched the color of the house. So the sailor was taken home.

Another version is that each clan or clan was obliged to paint their houses the same color. If noble people have a family coat of arms, then this is the color of the home. What was the root cause of the appearance of multi-colored buildings is not known for certain, but the tradition is maintained to this day. Now they do this to attract numerous tourists.

When visiting Venice, they usually come to Burano for a few hours to see the riot of colors. Now, according to the law, no one has the right, without special permission, to repaint a house a different color (even shutters, roof and doors) at their own discretion, only in agreement with the city administration.

Where is it and how to get there

The island can only be reached by sea by water bus - vaparetto from the Fondamenta Nuove pier, located in the center of Venice. Route No. 12 goes to the island, travel time is 45 - 50 minutes. Ticket price for 1 hour is 7 euros. You should know that trams depart from several houses in Venice. In order not to confuse the landing place and not go to another island, you need to look at the board where the route number and final stop are indicated.

You can purchase a ticket on shore or on board from the conductor; their cost is the same. If tickets were purchased on shore, they must be presented to a magnetic device, otherwise they will be invalid. And the fines for unpaid travel in Italy are impressive. A trip to the island of Burano, as well as to other nearby islands of Venice, does not leave people indifferent - beautiful houses with traditionally hung laundry, obligatory flowers on the windowsills, a wonderful view of the Venetian lagoon - all this will be remembered for a lifetime.