Murano, Italy: the colorful glass island

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This trip is over the water to fantastic, beautiful and colorful places. Because it's summer and we want more than ever to explore bright blue waters, to discover new places.

In this case, we sail through the Adriatic Sea from near Venice to reach a small but well-known island full of color, or rather colored glass, it is the island of Murano in Italy.

Those of you who have been to that area have surely bought one of those beautiful colored glass figurines as a souvenir. But there is much more.

To begin with, the view from afar seems like a magical place, as if out of time, or anchored in another time, and as we get closer to realize the number of poles around. How long will they be there? Nothing sinks, everything resists, everything is beautiful on the water.

And against the blue of the sea, the colors of the houses stand out, but also up close, also that of the boats and also that of the plants and flowers that we find nearby.

A calm town, its parks, houses, canals and church, all in silence, and just what we see stands out.

But there is more. Perhaps one of the places we should visit out of curiosity is one of those traditional and ancient glass factories. So the ship stops at the pier, to enter one of those factories full of art and history. An ancient trade that is still alive, with design, creativity, affection and dignity.

“Vetri Artistici” (artistic glass) puts on the facade. And inside they explain the whole process to us, it's hot inside, and we are amazed, so we forget for a moment to take more photos of everything. We only realize when we leave...

We left and before leaving for the next destination we continued looking at the color that faded as evening fell, the sound was the same, only the sound of the water that made all those boats already parked on the sides of the canals rock.

And every time it is darker, less color remains, but the same silence, the same calm and the same beauty of a magical and unique place.

We set sail again with a feeling of having traveled back in time, as if navigating the sea took us to other times, or as if time had not passed, everything remains the same there. Everything is like in a fairytale, a present story that comes from the past, to this colorful island that seems to be forever rocking on the sea.

Murano, Italy 💙 Europe

The text is totally mine and the photos too, by ©Duvinca

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