Burano
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Massimo Telò, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 2,660 residents
- Description: island in the Venetian Lagoon, Italy
- Also known as: “Isole di Burano”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mazzorbo and Torcello.
Mazzorbo
Photo: Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
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.
Lace Museum
Museum
Photo: Abxbay, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Lace Museum is located at the historic palace of Podestà of Torcello, in Galuppi square, on the island of Burano, near Venice, Italy. The palace was seat of the famous Burano Lace School from 1872 to 1970.
Burano
- Categories: island and locality
- Location: Venice, Metropolitan Venice, Veneto, Northeast Italy, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.48664° or 45° 29′ 12″ northLongitude
12.41689° or 12° 25′ 1″ eastPopulation
2,660Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)Open location code
8FQJFCP8+MQOpenStreetMap ID
node 4429692928OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3181403Wikidata ID
Q52439
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Burano” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Բուրանո”
- Basque: “Burano”
- Belarusian: “Бурана”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Бурана”
- Bulgarian: “Бурано”
- Catalan: “Burano”
- Cebuano: “Burano”
- Chinese: “布拉诺彩色岛”
- Chinese: “布拉諾島”
- Croatian: “Burano”
- Czech: “Burano”
- Danish: “Burano”
- Dutch: “Burano”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بورانو”
- Esperanto: “Burano”
- Estonian: “Burano”
- Finnish: “Burano”
- French: “Burano”
- German: “Burano”
- Greek: “Μπουράνο”
- Hebrew: “בוראנו”
- Hungarian: “Burano”
- Indonesian: “Burano”
- Italian: “Burano”
- Japanese: “ブラーノ”
- Korean: “부라노”
- Latin: “Boreanum”
- Luxembourgish: “Burano”
- Macedonian: “Бурано”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Burano”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Burano”
- Norwegian: “Burano”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Burano”
- Persian: “بورانو”
- Polish: “Burano”
- Portuguese: “Burano”
- Russian: “Бурано”
- Serbian: “Burano”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Burano”
- Slovenian: “Burano”
- Spanish: “Burano”
- Swedish: “Burano”
- Turkish: “Burano”
- Ukrainian: “Бурано”
- Venetian: “Buran”
- Vietnamese: “Burano”
- “Burano”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Burano”. Photo: Massimo Telò, CC BY-SA 3.0.