VENICE'S MINOR ISLANDS.
VENICE'S MINOR ISLANDS.
Beyond to the already most famous ones MURANO and BURANO and to less the
most known TORCELLO, the veneziana Lagoon is formed from a labyrinth of isolette
smaller, some di.le which, tutt' today lived, has relief for the people that
live to Venice.
From the historical point of view these smaller islands do not
have large and a entusiasmante one passed like their larger sisters.
The lagoon
of Venice is extended humid zone of Italy, extended 55,000 hectares, than with
lagoons of Degree and of Marano, it remains to testimony of the large one you
wrap lagoon and deltizia that a time went from the foci of the Timavo to
Ravenna. It introduces characteristics of all originates them is for the flora
that for the fauna, with atmospheres forged from the action of the tides and the
marine currents in contrast to that one of the rivers that modified you flows but also from the continuous work of the man who has constructed to you and dug
channels, banks, rooms.
Of it is derived an ecosystem with water mirrors to
various degree of salinità, that it conditions the various presence of the
species temporary land animals and vegetables, outcrops (shoals and velme),
different microclimates. The man has represented the decisive factor in the
process that has invert the natural tendency of the lagoon towards the
interramento and to maintain it like natural barrier in order to defend itself
against the enemies who came from the sea and like source of wealth, with its
ports and its islands, inhabited and cultivated.
The proposed route goes to the discovery of the northern part of the lagoon
with a distance that, leaving from Venice historical center (imbarcadero/pontile
of the New Foundations) touches the raggiungibili islands and places with
average watery publics (ACTV) 
and
percorribili then on foot or in bicycle.
It is a visit that previews the
exploration of urbanizzate islands which Murano and Burano with their productive
tradition and the historical palaces, of islands to agricultural vocation which
Sant' Erasmo (the garden of the Most serene one) and the Vignole, of goes them
and typical landscapes Lagunari, of places characterize you from monuments that
bring back us to the origins of the Republic of Venice like Torcello.
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Linea 12 da Venezia Fondamente
Nove per: |
Murano (fermata Faro), Mazzorbo, Burano, Torcello, Treporti. |
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Linea
13 da Treporti per: |
Sant'Erasmo, Vignole, Fondamente Nove. |
Mazzorbo
L`isola di Mazzorbo is delimited to the north-west from the channel
omonimo that it divides it in Mazzorbo and Mazzorbetto, to dall`isola
South-east of Burano, the Northeast from the channel that divides it from
Torcello. The island has a vaguely rectangular shape, with the side longer
than approximately 500 meters. While the Mazzorbetto neighbor is equipped
of a lussureggiante and wild vegetation, alternate Mazzorbo zones
urbanizzate in some cases of recent construction and others cultivated to
screw and productions garden-frutticole.
Historical signals Anciently called Maiurbium, since the first times the
island - being able to enjoy the vicinity of Torcello, before "understood
them" of the lagoon - boasted very five parishes and six monasteri,
of which it is sure l`esistenza in XIII the century. Of they, constructed
with precious materials it imports to you from Altino, the church of
S.Caterina, raised between 1283 and 1291, is only the still existing one,
making part of a Benedictine conventuale complex founded in the WAYS
century, reconstructed in century XIV and soppresso in 1806. The church
extension, over the portale, a relief of 1368 with the Sposalizio of the
Saint. In the entrance hall, on the left, one Madonna with the Child,
bassorilievo of XIV the century. The inside is to one navata and of
gotiche shapes. E` preceded from a deep hanging chorus, closed from grates
and supported from two columns. To Mazzorbo Austrian still exists a part
of the defensive line. Draft of the fort of Mazzorbo, abandoned until
1981, of which slowly it is in course the recovery.
Sant'Erasmo
From Treporti, returning with the boat towards Venice, costeggerà on left
the zone called "Bacan", species of scanno that of recent it has
revealed the presence of a most interesting aquatic fauna composed above
all of limicoli, until arriving to the extensive island of Sant' Erasmo.
The island of Sant' Erasmo finds in the river basin center-northerner and
is largest of the lagoon (long approximately 4 km and wide, in its wider
part, little less than 600 meters). Until all`800 it was be a matter just
of a lido true and, place of forehead to the Adriatic sea. Then, with the
realization of the dams to the mouths of the port, the action of warehouse
of the currents created the dune of Sabbioni Tip. E` an atypical island,
being be until the past century a lido, and being still caught up from the
marine currents, pure is turned aside from the mouth of the Lido. The
shoreline of forehead to the channel of Treporti is typically marine and
its sabbiose dunes have defended for centuries the rear lagoon order.
Historical signals Martial describe the island, anciently called Alba or
Mercede, like one laughing zone of holiday with fertile land and large
pinete. Not precise news is had on the amount of churches that knows
existed, neither on their location. Before 1000 the parochial church of
the SS. Erme and Erasmo was founded, than in 1120 it was rebuilt for
finally being demolished to the time of the napoleoniche abolitions. There
was also a monastero that came destroyed in the 1380 from the invasions of
the Genovesi. But its functions were above all agricultural and defensive.
It has carried out for centuries and still in part it carries out the
function of "garden" of Venice, specializing itself in the
production of carciofi and grapes from which it comes drawn a wine from
the sapore salmastro of all the particular one. The more obvious defensive
installation is the fort of S. Erasmo that made part of a line of
fortifications whose realization came realized from the napoleonico
government after 1797 to the fall of the Most serene one. The construction
came then continued from the Austrians, than they completed it building up
in the 1832 also Massimiliana tower placed to the south-western extremity
of the island. The name has had to the fact that emperor Massimiliano d'
Asburgo withdrew itself to you during a risorgimentale uprising. Hour the
structure abandoned, of state property property, troneggia over a field of
carciofi. The association Tower Massimiliana S. Erasmo is engaging itself
from some years for its recovery. In the island today they live
approximately 800 persons, given over for more to agriculture. The visit
to the cited fortifications is valid pretest for walks between the gardens
leaving from landing place ACTV of S.Erasmo-Capannone and taking the
carrareccia directed to south completing the coastal circumnavigation of
the island. The length of the circumnavigation is of approximately 9
kilometers with times of distance of approximately 3 hours excluded the
pauses (4 km on road asphalted and for remaining the 5 on narrow lanes
white women or sterrate).
San
Francesco del Deserto
The island of Saint Francisco of the Desert is found of forehead to S. Erasmo
and south of Burano. L`isola has a surface total of approximately 2,6 hectares
of which 1440 mq it builds up to you; it introduces a irregular perimeter and
very checked. The takeover is constituted from a convent that is placed to the
dell`isola center and is raggiungibile here through the channel that separates
l`isola in two distinguished parts, even if always connected between they. The
rest is in cultivated part and part held to garden with trees to high stalk.
Externally the island is introduced with its unmistakable profile of cypresses
that scarcely leave to intravvedere part of the monastero and the bell tower.
Historical signals the foundation dell`eremo comes traditionally made to
coincide with the stay in lagoon of Saint Francisco d`Assisi of return
dall`Egitto, but they remain still many doubts is on the veridicità of the fact,
is on an eventual active role of the Saint in the creation dell`insediamento. Of
sure one knows that in the 1228 patrizio Jacopo Michiel, dell`isola owner,
coming to an agreement itself with Sant`Antonio from Padova, provincial minister,
made to erect one church to name of Saint Francisco. This turns out to be the
first church dedicated to the Saint. Little later, 4 March 1233, the Michiel
donated in perpetual l`isola the smaller friars of the Franciscan convent of the
Frari of Venice who built up you the convent, reserving itself the faculty to
erect one to you small house where to pass the Lent. The dell`isola denomination
drift from the fact that a pair of centuries after l`insediamento of the friars,
the dell`isola deperimento induced them to abandon it. In Devout 1453 II granted
l`isola i to Smaller friars Observing that they restored the church and the
convent building up the chiostro rinascimentale. Clement Quarant`anni later VIII
you insediò i Reformed Smaller friars that they uninterruptedly inhabited it
until 1806, fatal year during which the napoleoniche abolitions obligated them
to withdraw themselves in the convent of Saint Bonaventura to Venice. With the
secolarizzazione, the convent, composed of trentuno cellette, came used after
warehouse of exploded to you and l`isola entire to military barracks. In 1856,
l`imperatore d`Austria Francisco donated l`isola to the Patriarch of Venice that
in its turn the granted ones in perpetual to the Franciscan Smaller friars who
returned to you therefore after more than six hundred years. From the 1858 the
jobs of complex dell`intero restoration were ollowed, that they carried to the
light beyond to the apses dell`oratorio also the foundations dell`antica church.
Today l`isola, not served from average publics, he is raggiungibile with private
means especially leaving from Burano. Once in the place a friar always available
finds itself to you to guide the visitors through l`isola.
Treporti
From Burano, continuing towards with the boat of line ACTV, place therefore
called for the ancient presence of three mouths of port is arrived to the
capolinea of Treporti (hour passings), situated on the inner part of the earth
language that at the same time closes the lagoon veneta to dividendola
settentrione from the Adriatic sea. From the landing place the excursions are
advisable in go them and in surrounding atmospheres, in direction north, it
characterizes to you from the presence of numerous manufatti for the peach calls
"bilancioni to you", from casoni the Lagunari, integral shoals and of
great beauty. In particular it is interesting to arrive, through the channel of
Bariums, to the lagoon village of Small Lio, developed around to XVI the
Romanesque century over vestigia medioevali. In these zones the passage from the
shoal zones will be noticed moreover, influenced from the water sauce and to
vegetation essentially alofila, to the sweet water zones characterized from the
cannuccia swampy.
Le
Vignole
Continuing from Sant' Erasmo for Deeply the Nine it is reached the island of the
Vignole, delimited to north from the channel of the Bissa, to south and the west
from the Channel of the Ships and to East from the channel and dall`isola of
S.Erasmo, approximately to a kilometer to east of Venice, to the shoulders of
Sant' Elena. It is introduced like along sabbioso back a cuneiform place between
the port of S.Erasmo and that one of Lido. Dominant characteristic of the island
is its lussureggiante vegetation. Historical signals Anciently called Biniola,
or also "of the seven vines", were one of the places before privilege
you of holiday of the inhabitants of Altino and those of Venice then. According
to the Martial poet, the magnificenza of the residences was advanced to that one
of Pozzuoli. In the WAYS century small church came to you built up one, of which
today nail head dedicated to S.Erosia and placed side by side remains only one
from a small bell tower. Strong they are the military presences: beyond to along
manufactured, used a time like situated polveriera and of forehead to S.Erasmo,
l`isola is connected with a bridge to the Fort of S.Andrea, built up in ` the
500 in order to defend from the Turks the mouth of port of the Lido. The
structure, than divenne symbol of the force and the power of the Most serene
one, is of trapezial plant and was equipped of a 40 series of cannoneer disposed
to aureole and placed to hair d`acqua. In 1950, because of serious static
problems and of erosion, collapsed the chine to the restored Northeast hour. He
is not visitabile in how much anchor center of barracks of the Italian army. The
Vignole, especially in the beautiful season, is the ideal place for one
scampagnata or a lunch in one of the trattorie with present bowers and garden in
the pressed ones of the landing place of the motorboat.
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