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Murano is an island town, about 1.5 km north of , in northern and is considered part of Venice. It can be considered a slightly cheaper base from which to explore Venice.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Isola di San Michele and Murano Glass Museum.

Islet
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The Island of San Michele is an island in the , , northern . The island contains , a Catholic church, as well as the San Michele Cemetery, ’s principal cemetery.

Museum
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The is a on the history of glass, including local Murano glass, located on the island of Murano, just north of , .

Church
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The Church of is a religious edifice located in Murano, northern . It is known for its twelfth century Byzantine mosaic pavement and is said to contain the relics of Saint Donatus of Euroea as well as large bones behind the altar said to be the bones of a dragon slain by the saint.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cannaregio and Castello.

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is one six sestieri that make up . For many travellers, it's the first part of Venice they enter, since Venezia Santa Lucia railway station, the main railway station, is here.

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is one of six sestieri that make up .

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is one of six sestieri that make up . Covering 86 acres along the Grand Canal, it is one of the oldest parts of the city, having been settled before the 9th century.

Murano

Latitude
45.4555° or 45° 27′ 20″ north
Longitude
12.3511° or 12° 21′ 4″ east
Population
4,510
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IT VVZ
Open location code
8FQJF942+5C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4429692929
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3172456
Wiki­data ID
Q52437
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Murano” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مورانو”
  • Armenian: “Մուրանո”
  • Asturian: “Isla de Murano”
  • Asturian: “Islla de Murano”
  • Basque: “Murano”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Мурана”
  • Belarusian: “Мурана”
  • Breton: “Murano”
  • Bulgarian: “Мурано”
  • Catalan: “Murano”
  • Cebuano: “Murano”
  • Chechen: “Мурано (Венеци)”
  • Chechen: “Мурано”
  • Chinese: “穆拉诺岛”
  • Chinese: “穆拉诺玻璃岛”
  • Croatian: “Murano”
  • Czech: “Murano”
  • Danish: “Murano”
  • Dutch: “Murano”
  • Esperanto: “Murano”
  • Estonian: “Murano”
  • Finnish: “Murano”
  • French: “Île de Murano”
  • French: “Murano”
  • German: “Murano”
  • Greek: “Μουράνο”
  • Hebrew: “מוראנו”
  • Hungarian: “Murano”
  • Indonesian: “Murano”
  • Italian: “Murano”
  • Japanese: “ムラーノ”
  • Korean: “무라노”
  • Latin: “Murianum”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Murano”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Murano”
  • Norwegian: “Murano”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Murano”
  • Persian: “مورانو”
  • Polish: “Murano”
  • Portuguese: “Murano”
  • Romanian: “Murano”
  • Russian: “Мурано”
  • Serbian: “Murano”
  • Serbian: “Мурано”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Murano”
  • Slovenian: “Murano”
  • Spanish: “Murano”
  • Swahili: “Murano”
  • Swedish: “Murano”
  • Tatar: “Мурано (Венеция)”
  • Tatar: “Мурано”
  • Turkish: “Murano”
  • Ukrainian: “Мурано”
  • Venetian: “Muran”
  • Welsh: “Murano”
  • “Murano”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Murano”. Photo: Abxbay, CC BY-SA 3.0.