“Detourism: La newsletter di Venezia”, the official Town of Venice Tourism Office Newsletter, takes us on a “detour” through the lagoon today, discovering the island of Torcello! Enjoy your reading!
The island of Torcello.
In the peace of the lagoon, lies a ghostly island, a vanished city: this is Torcello, mythical site of Venice’s origins, the first inhabited island of the lagoon. The shores of this island have been beloved by great artists, crowned heads, stars of the stage and heads of state: not least writer Ernest Hemingway, who spend long periods of his life here. Every year, on August 15th, the Museum and the Basilica of Torcello open to the public free of charge (10.30 am – 5.30 pm). During recent conservation work in the basilica, restorers discovered exceptional fragments of 9th century frescoes, which are the oldest in the Venetian area.
[source: La newsletter di Venezia, N° 29/2020 del 06.08.2020]
[immagine: Pixabay]
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Special thanks to the Councillor for Tourism for having enthusiastically welcomed this new important collaboration between TGS Eurogroup and the Tourism Office of the Town of Venice and for giving us the precious opportunity to publish on the pages of this blog some extracts from this newsletter, both in Italian and in English.
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