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Transportation: Easy to get here with vaporetto line LN
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'Mode': TO
Category: Ship/Boat
Getting TO/AROUND: To get to Burano, the best option is to take LN line (LN stands for laguna nord, olive-green colour), leaving from Fondamenta Nuove. But careful, it is not the stop the lines 41/42 and 51/52 use, but the one across the bridge to the west (see GE screenshot).
I lived close to Fondamenta Nuove, so it was my vaporetto stop anyhow. If you live somewhere else (and have one of the unlimited boat cards), take the lines 41/42 or 51/52 to get to Fondamenta Nuovo and just walk across the bridge to the other boat stop.
Boats of line LN leave from Fond. Nuove every 10 min and 40 min past the hour, will make one stop in Murano (at stop Faro), then one at Mazzorbo and the next one is Burano. The last one, Treporti, is on the peninsula Cavallino. The trip takes around 45 – 50 minutes, depending on the traffic in the lagoon (boats slow down when another one passes by – either way).
If you don’t have one of the “boat cards”, you can buy your ticket at the Fond. Nuove ticket counter; it is open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Then, your ticket is already validated. If you have one of the “boat cards”, it would be validated anyhow.
To go back to Venezia, you can either take LN line via Lido to San Marco, or the same way back via Murano to Fond. Nuove.
The trip itself is marvellous as well, but I describe this separately.
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Website: http://www.actv.it/english/navigazione.php?pagina=actv_proc/cerca_linea_mauro
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Transportation: The boat trip to Burano (1) - marvellous
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'Mode': TO
Category: Ship/Boat
Getting TO/AROUND: Now I love boat trips anyhow, but this one was special, as a boat trip through the lagoon (or in the lagoon ?) is marvellous ! The boat will stop first at Murano to collect more passengers (it seems to be popular to “do Murano, Burano and Torcello in one day….”) and then sets out into open waters. It is fascinating to watch the lagoon traffic, how the boats move and behave if other boats pass, what kind of “water street signs” are set out, what they mean and also to look at the scenery around. The first little island we pass (at 45°,28’10” N; 12°,22’,45’’ E) is called Isola de San Giacomo in Palude, where once a monastery dedicated to San Giacomo was built. But it was abandoned and later (mid 15th century) used to evacuate victims of the plague, and even much later as military garnison during the world wars. Now it is abandoned again, but from what I got through the website below (with help of babelfish of course), Biennale used it as stage for theatre performance. Left from its former purpose is the altar with Madonna (photo 1).
And as fan of Commissario Brunetti, I am pretty sure that it was used as set to film the end of the (German) TV version of “Sea of Troubles” (Das Gesetz der Lagune), the Pellestrina story.
Update February 10, 2009:
Haha, no it is not..... the real Pellestrina is/was where the scenes of Sea of Troubles were filmed...
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Website: http://digilander.libero.it/venexian/ita/polveri.htm
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Transportation: The boat trip to Burano (2) - marvellous
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'Mode': TO
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Getting TO/AROUND: After we have passed this San Giacomo in Palude, we already see Burano in the far distance. Well, I saw an island and recognized it as Burano from the very much crooked belltower.
And on our way, we pass the two little islands (well one bigger and one smaller; at 45°,28’42” N; 12°,23’,45’’ E) of Madonna del Monte, where Benedictine nuns have settled in early 14th century. Their monastery was dedicated to San Nicolò (St. Nicholas). After the nuns have abandoned it, it was integrated into the monastery of St. Caterina de Mazzorbo.
In the course of time, the buildings have been transformed into a “polveriera”, which babelfish could not translate, but I am pretty sure that it means a gunpowder manufacturing. That’s what is still seen today.
The website below also mentions that these two little islands once have been one, but were split up during a storm.
They make perfect motifs for those of you who are like me and just love these abandoned buildings, overgrown with lush vegetation, and where imagination can flow of what all might have happened there.
Next stop then is at Isola Mazzorbo, and then we arrive at Burano.
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Website: http://digilander.libero.it/venexian/ita/polveri.htm
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Destinations near Burano- Burano, 0.04 km / 0.02 miles
- Mazzarbo, 0.63 km / 0.39 miles
- Torcello, 1.56 km / 0.97 miles
- Sant Erasmo, 2.95 km / 1.83 miles
- Treporti, 3.6 km / 2.24 miles
- Isola di Murano, 5.5 km / 3.42 miles
- Murano, 5.91 km / 3.67 miles
- Lido, 8.5 km / 5.28 miles
- La Giudecca, 8.54 km / 5.31 miles
- Venice, 8.59 km / 5.34 miles
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Zvrlj Wed Feb 11, 2009 08:51 UTC
Once again we have become aware of the fact that we have never been on Burano. On our next trip to Venice we'll have to :-) | VeronicaG Tue Dec 9, 2008 19:48 UTC
Such vivid colors saturating homes and landscapes! The lovely old street signs with barely readible etchings are of interest, too.....Burano looks like something out of a picture book! | wroclawiak Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:20 UTC
Du weißt schon, wohin wir fahren. Schöne Seiten!!!! | JLBG Mon Jun 2, 2008 05:20 UTC
Wow, what an arcobaleno of colored houses! An outstanding page! I feel I prefer by far Burano to Venice! May be we will go to Burano and skip Venice, haha! |
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