Encyclopedia • Islands

An elongated island, actually composed of several islands connected by bridges, which in the past earned it the name of Spinale or Spinalonga.

It is assumed that the island, since ancient times, had an important strategic function to control the waterways towards the hinterland, which in Roman times went from Ravenna to Altino.

The island of Lazzaretto Vecchio is an island in the central lagoon with an area of ​​about two and a half hectares of which 8,500 square meters are built.

Reachable in about 20-30 minutes of navigation from Venice, the Lido island is located between the Venice lagoon and the Adriatic Sea and its length is approximately twelve kilometers for a width ranging from a minimum of 300 to a maximum of 1000

Location included in the municipality of Cavallino-Treporti, Lio Piccolo is made up of a group of islets reachable by sea and by land thanks to some connecting roads.

Separated from a main canal - the Canale maggiore of Mazzorbo - the island still today shows on its banks buildings in the Gothic-Venetian style, experiencing the same fate as the entire Torcelliano territory.

Some time ago it was known as Amurianum or Amuriana, whose shape is reminiscent of Venice with its 7 islands (originally 9), the main canal flowing through the middle and the canals connected by bridges.

San Giorgio Maggiore owes its name to a church built in 790.

The origins of the island of San Michele, now commonly called the island of the Cemetery, can be traced back to the presence of the Camaldolese monks on the spot even though there are two versions currently accredited regarding their arrival on th

The origins and the first settlements

Overlooking the Adriatic Sea until a relatively recent past, it then became entirely surrounded by lagoon waters following the construction of the north dam of the Lido of Venice and the formation of what is now called Punta Sabbioni, Sant'Erasmo

Located a short distance from the islands of Burano, Mazzorbo and Mazzorbetto, the current name of the island of Torcello seems to derive from Dorceum - a marshy islet - or from Turricellum, probably the name of one of the ports