Torcello

Torcello is a sparsely populated at the northern end of the , in north-eastern . It was first settled in 452 AD and has been referred to as the parent island from which Venice was populated.
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  • Island
  • …has 13 residents
  • …is also known as “Isola Torcello”
  • Description: Island of the Venetian Lagoon, Italy
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Mazzorbo and Torcello Cathedral.
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is one of various islands in the northern part of the Lagoon of Venice.
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Church
The Church of Santa Maria Assunta is a basilica church…
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Museum
The Provincial Museum of Torcello is a museum founded…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Burano.
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is an in the , northern…

Torcello

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Latitude
45.49713° or 45° 29′ 50″ north
Longitude
12.41774° or 12° 25′ 4″ east
Open location code
8FQJFCW9+V3
Open­Street­Map ID
way 57402446
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
3165539
Wiki­data ID
Q52441

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Venetian—“Torcello” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Torcello”
  • Arabic: “تورسيلو”
  • Armenian: “Տորչելլո”
  • Bulgarian: “Торчело”
  • Catalan: “Torcello”
  • Cebuano: “Torcello”
  • Chechen: “Торчело (Венеци)”
  • Chechen: “Торчело”
  • Chinese: “托爾切洛島”
  • Croatian: “Torcello”
  • Czech: “Torcello”
  • Dutch: “Torcello”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تورسيلو”
  • Estonian: “Torcello”
  • Finnish: “Torcello”
  • French: “Torcello”
  • German: “Torcello”
  • Greek: “Τορτσέλλο”
  • Hebrew: “טורצ’לו”
  • Hungarian: “Torcello”
  • Indonesian: “Torcello”
  • Italian: “Torcello”
  • Japanese: “トルチェッロ”
  • Latin: “Torcellum”
  • Latin: “Torricellium”
  • Latin: “Turricellum”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Torcello”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Torcello”
  • Norwegian: “Torcello”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Torcello”
  • Persian: “تورچلو”
  • Polish: “Torcello”
  • Portuguese: “Torcello”
  • Russian: “Торчелло”
  • Sardinian: “Torcello”
  • Serbian: “Torcello, Venezia”
  • Serbian: “Торчело”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Torcello”
  • Slovenian: “Torcello”
  • Spanish: “Torcello”
  • Swedish: “Torcello”
  • Tatar: “Торчело (Венеция)”
  • Tatar: “Торчело”
  • Turkish: “Torcello”
  • Ukrainian: “Торчелло”
  • Venetian: “Torceło”

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