What to see in Burano in one day, how to get there from Venice with vaporetto 12 from Fondamenta Nuove, what not to miss in addition to the colorful houses, the Lace Museum and its legend.
Only 45 minutes by vaporetto from Venice (line 12 from Fondamenta Nove) there is an island with a village where getting lost is a real delight: almost magical colors, flavors and knowledge await us at Burano.
Treat yourself to a day on this island and let yourself be enchanted by its atmosphere: you will not regret it.
Start your stroll by walking towards the center and don't miss these places.
The houses of Burano
Once in Burano, you just have to get lost among its houses: mint green, peacock blue, fuchsia pink, there is something for everyone really.
Follow the canals, enter the calli, do not leave any corner unexplored, because every corner can be, and is, a discovery. Why are the houses in Burano so colorful? There are those who say that this way fishermen could recognize their homes from afar, in the fog who instead attributes to the colors the power to drive away the demon and the evil eye. Whatever the reason, the colors make Burano a sort of perennial carnival capable of reviving the spirit of even the most sulky tourist.
Bepi's house
La more colorful house among the already colorful ones of Burano? The House of Giuseppe Toselli, known as Bepi. Bepi worked at the Fantin Cinema and loved painting. It's nice to have passions, but for Bepi it wasn't enough, he made his passions the cardinal points of his life; just look at his house: rectangles, lozenges, circles and ovals dance on the peacock blue, ranging from yellow to green to red.
And some of the children of the past in Burano still remember spending evenings in the small campiello where Bepi's house is located, because this strange little man used to spread a white sheet and broadcast cartoons and small funny films for children. children, and not only, on his sheet. Small stories of a small island but very rich in shades and colors
Lace Museum
Maybe you think it's boring and dusty and instead the Lace Museum di Burano in Piazza Galluppi is a gem, if only for the corner of the room on the second floor intended for ancient lace makers. Yes, there are still some who work on the bobbin, fast and fast, the lace.
You can find them in the afternoon, as long as the sun is out, and seeing them there, absorbed in work and chatting really warms the heart. Did you know that the origin of Burano lace is there a legend? It seems that the first lace was brought to Burano by a fisherman for his bride. It had been given to him by the sirens who had created it with the foam of the sea.
The lace was so beautiful that all the women of Burano seeing it, on the wedding day of the fisherman and his great love, almost went mad with envy and a competition was unleashed as to who was able to create a veil as beautiful as the one created from the sirens.
This is how Burano lace was born.
The sweet break: bussolà or buranelli
A visit to Burano cannot ignore the gastronomic break.
I buranelli o compass are the typical donut-shaped biscuits of Burano made with flour, butter and eggs. Once they were preparing for Easter now they are always found.
Excellent for breakfast, some say that the best way to enjoy them is at the end of a meal with a nice glass of passito. To you the choice.
The crooked bell tower of Burano
Tall is tall, crooked is crooked, but it is much less well known than the Tower of Pisa. What's this?
And the bell tower of Burano which overlooks the houses and which does not fail to intrigue everyone from the moment in which, by vaporetto, one approaches the island of Burano.
Built in eighteenth century, already at that time gave the first signs of subsidence which have continued over time and which made it necessary to consolidate works completed in about 1970.
