Island · Venice, Italy

Torcello

The lagoon's first settlement, now nine residents and a cathedral with mosaics older than Venice itself.

Torcello is in Venice, and this is Venice — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 590 km across and 210 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. The full map →

Give it half a day · Open year-round · 45.497°N, 12.417°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

Frecciarossa and Italo make Milan–Rome three hours and compete on price. All of Italy →

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Eight thousand square metres of gold mosaic over a Byzantine plan, on a floor that undulates with the subsidence.

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Journeys that stop here

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The record

What this atlas holds about Torcello, and nothing it does not.

Kind: Island
Give it: half a day
Season: Open year-round
Where: 45.497°N, 12.417°E
In: Venice