Today we got up earlier and headed out right after breakfast. First stop was the Academia Art Museum to see a great collection of Renaissance Art. Among the more famous pictures (for those Art History 101 buffs) was Bellini's La Pieta and the picture of St George and Dragon.
After the museum we decided to take a water bus over to the island town of Mureno. This is the birthplace of Venetian Glass making. A quick 15 minute ride into the main lagoon, the town of Mureno has its own style and energy. Glass shops are even more prevalent and the glass factories sizable. Artists from around Europe and the world practice their trade and hone the special Venetian style of glass work (including glass blowing). We are glass enthusiasts and it was sheer torture not to buy. If you are looking for that spectacular, ornate, but tasteful chandalier for your foyer, formal bedroom or dining room this is the place to look. The town is split in two buy a main canal. There is public art (beautiful, unique and some bizarrely puzzling) everywhere. A decidely more subtle city in terms of its facades and buildings it is a quaint hide away and we both fell in love with its charm. Though for us it would be hell as well with so much beautiful glass work.
It was our intention to tour the glass museums and workshops but while eating both of us began feeling the heat in a bad way. Forrest even passed out at the dinner table. He was alright and it only lasted briend time but scary nonetheless.
Still the boat ride back afforded us another look at this gem of a town on the outer islands.
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