Torcello
Torcello is a locality in Venice, Metropolitan Venice, Veneto and has about 25 residents. Torcello is situated nearby to the locality San Mauro, as well as near San Martino Destra.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 25 residents
- Description: human settlement in Italy
- Also known as: “Torcallo”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Torcello and Mazzorbo.
Torcello
Photo: Abxbay, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Torcello is a sparsely populated island at the northern end of the Venetian Lagoon, in north-eastern Italy. It was first settled in 452 AD and has been referred to as the parent island from which Venice was populated.
Mazzorbo
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Mazzorbo is one of various islands in the northern part of the Lagoon of Venice. Like the other islands in this part of the lagoon, it was the site of one of the earliest settlements in the lagoon which predated the development of Venice.
Museo Provinciale di Torcello
Museum
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The Provincial Museum of Torcello is a museum founded at the end of 19th century on the Venetian island of Torcello. It has two sections: the Archaeological Section and the Medieval and Modern Section.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Burano and Treporti.
Burano
Photo: Massimo Telò, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Burano is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy, near Torcello at the northern end of the lagoon, known for its lace work and brightly coloured homes. The primary economy is tourism.
Treporti
Village
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Treporti is a village, which is situated 4½ km southeast of Torcello.
Ca‘ Noghera
Hamlet
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Ca‘ Noghera is a hamlet, which is situated 5 km northwest of Torcello.
Torcello
- Category: human settlement
- Location: Venice, Metropolitan Venice, Veneto, Northeast Italy, Italy, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Waray—“Torcello” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Torcello”
- Catalan: “Torcello”
- Cebuano: “Torcello”
- Czech: “Torcello”
- Danish: “Torcello”
- Dutch: “Torcello, Venezia”
- Finnish: “Torcello”
- French: “Torcello”
- Indonesian: “Torcello”
- Irish: “Torcello”
- Italian: “Torcello”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Torcello”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Torcello”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Torcello”
- Polish: “Torcello”
- Portuguese: “Torcello”
- Romanian: “Torcello”
- Serbian: “Torcello”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Torcello, Venezia”
- Slovak: “Torcello”
- Slovenian: “Torcello”
- Spanish: “Torcello”
- Swedish: “Torcello”
- Tagalog: “Torcello”
- Turkish: “Torcello”
- Waray (Philippines): “Torcello”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Museo provinciale di Torcello (palazzo del Consiglio) and Santa Fosca.
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