Before winter descends on the Veneto and all the tourists are gone, the subtle corners of the remote islands of the Venetian lagoon share their colors in quiet fall splendor.
Flowers on Torcello.
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Torcello’s Lonely Sentry
This magnificent fellow stands a lonely watch outside the sculpture museum on Torcello, the quiet little island where the first Venetians built a homestead to hide from the raiding Lombards and their ilk. To think of all that’s come and gone for the Venetian republic since an anonymous sculptor liberated him from a marble blank centuries ago…
Burano Magic
From this perspective you get a fantastic feel for our favorite little island in the lagoon. The climb at the Torcello campanile isn’t for the faint of heart, but well worth it.
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