What was once the "capital" of the lagoon north and bounded to the south-west from Burano Canal, north and east it borders on the marshy formations Rose and Centrega.
The island has a slightly trapezoidal shape and is at the heart of what was previously the heart of economic and social life of the Venetian civilization.
The ancient Dorceum or Turricellum to its full splendor came to house tens of thousands of inhabitants. Bishopric from 638 to 1689, saw its flowering in the early Middle Ages when it became a port of absolute importance, with the three channels that were opening to the sea, and the laboriosissime officine metallurgical, glass and processing of wool.
The ancient Dorceum or Turricellum to its full splendor came to house tens of thousands of inhabitants. Bishopric from 638 to 1689, saw its flowering in the early Middle Ages when it became a port of absolute importance, with the three channels that were opening to the sea, and the laboriosissime officine metallurgical, glass and processing of wool.
From the 1272 resolution that allowed the processing of the latter only to Torcello and its quarters. In the account that in the tenth century and became the Byzantine emperor Constantine Porfirogenito, Torcello is described as a great emporium.
To get an idea of the wealth that fed the island, just think that even here in 1795 there were 737 noble families, of equal dignity with Venetian. Already in the fifteenth century the island had begun its slow decline phase.
Sixteen resisted numerous monasteries and churches, for a total of twelve parishes. The origins of the crisis onto first partial, then total, which occluded the port mouths, and the progress made by the sediments and the Dese Sile, the impaludamento, the predominance of fresh water over the salt and the scourge of malaria.
Currently a lot of magnificence last only a few dozen inhabitants and the monumental complex composed of the Cathedral, the Baptistery and the Martyrium of St. Fosca.
Sights:
Church of Santa Fosca
Cathedral
Museum in the lagoon
Ponte del Diavolo. E 'a bridge without railings connecting the two sides of the channel Torcello. Remains one of the rare examples of the kind that still survive in the lagoon.
The lack of bands suggests that even at Torcello you practice the struggles of fists as in Venice. The name probably derives from the family that lived in the palace across the canal.
