Centre Travel

On Torcello, the secluded in the northern reaches of the lagoon, a magical, fascinating place, the medieval buildings clustered around the square, once the residence of the local magistrates, are home to the Provincial Museum. Established in the late nineteenth century by a group of eminent and cultured Venetian collectors, the Torcello Museum houses two permanent sections, the Archaelogical and the Medieval and Modern. The exhibits illustrate the thousand-year-long history of the island and its relations with the mainland and with Venice, evoking the past of a place suspended between water and earth and the sea-changes it went through along the centuries owing to natural causes or the action of man. The permanent displays present finds that testify to the intense trade involving the lagoon and its inhabitants starting from the early Veneto , pre-Roman, roman, Byzantine, and the early medieval periods. The glorious days of the Serenissima are given ample testimony are given ample...

On Torcello, the secluded in the northern reaches of the lagoon, a magical, fascinating place, the medieval buildings clustered around the square, once the residence of the local magistrates, are home to the Provincial Museum. Established in the late nineteenth century by a group of eminent and cultured Venetian collectors, the Torcello Museum houses two permanent sections, the Archaelogical and the Medieval and Modern. The exhibits illustrate the thousand-year-long history of the island and its relations with the mainland and with Venice, evoking the past of a place suspended between water and earth and the sea-changes it went through along the centuries owing to natural causes or the action of man. The permanent displays present finds that testify to the intense trade involving the lagoon and its inhabitants starting from the early Veneto , pre-Roman, roman, Byzantine, and the early medieval periods. The glorious days of the Serenissima are given ample testimony are given ample...