The colourful Island of Bruno, Italy

Burano is a pretty island in the northern part of the lagoon of Venice, Italy  with a current population of about 2,800 inhabitants. It consists of four individual islands, which are separated by narrow, 10 meters wide, canals, rio Pontinello in the west, rio Zuecca in the south and rio Terranova in the east. Burano is famous for lace-making and for its brightly-colored fishermen’s houses; the island is a photographer’s paradise.

The brightly-painted walls extend all through the island and not just the principal tourist canals. The colors of the houses follow a specific system originally coming from the golden age of its development; if someone wishes to paint their home, he must send a request to the government, who will accordingly respond allowing only the specific paint colors permitted for that lot of the island. Guidebooks suggest the painting began with the fishermen’s desire to identify their own houses from the lagoon, which seems sweet but not particularly likely (the majority aren’t visible from the water in any case).

Burano certainly seems to an outsider like a cheerful place to live or visit. Open doors and laundry hanging outside on lines to dry, all add to the impression of a friendly and tight-knit community.

Just gone ashore from actv boat, you will be in a green lawn where a Remigio Barbaro’s solemn sculpture is placed. Pursuing the shores you will arrive to center of the Island: Galuppi Square; here neighbourly ladies, invite the most curious visitors to come into their shops to admire the lace working. Then, if you need to refresh yourself, there are a lot of typical "trattoria buranella" where you can eat very fresh and good fish. If your time is short you can opt for a delicious icecream in a bar or a typical Burano’s sweet dish (the most famous are the "Bussolà" and the "Esse") in a pastry store, enjoying it until the end of Piazza Galuppi where San Martino Bishop’s Church is located: inside, in addition to a lot of important works, there is a famous opera of Gian Battista Tiepolo. Sideways is located the Santa Barbara’s Chapel.

Always in the same square there is the "Museo del Merletto" (Lace Museum), the Town Hall, a well made of Istria’s stone and the Baldassarre Galuppi’s sculpture made by Remigio Barbaro, the well-known sculptor from Burano.

Sideways the church, some stands offer local souvernirs, Murano glass products and venetian masks for a cheap price. Moreover every Wednesday morning here the street market takes place and two minutes far from the center you can take a look at the fish market, where to see the typical venetian lagoon sea-food.

Among Burano’s tiny streets there are a lot of "capitelli" (capitals) placed in the calli entrances and, searching for them, surely you will bump into the most famous and coloured house in the island: "la Casa di Bepi Suà" (the house of Joseph Sweaty).