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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
Santa Maria & Campanile:
Tel 041 73 01 19 (Basilica).
Open 10:30am–5:30pm daily
(Nov–Feb: 10am–4:30pm).
Closed 1 Jan, 25 Dec. & 9 ^
cathedral only. 8 campanile
only. Santa Fosca: Open for
Masses only. Museo dell’Estuario:
Tel 041 73 07 61. Open
10:30am–5:30pm Tue–Sun (Nov–
Feb: 10am–5pm). Closed public
hols. & ∑ museoditorcello.
provincia.venezia.it

Torcello’s Last Canals Transport
Silted canals and malaria hastened Torcello’s decline. One of the 4 12 from Fondamenta Nuove,
remaining waterways runs from the vaporetto stop to the basilica. then 9 from Burano.

Santa Fosca
Built in the 11th and 12th centuries
on a Greek-cross plan, the church has
a serene Byzantine interior with a
central pentagonal apse.

Vaporetto
boarding point

Attila’s Throne
It was said that the
5th-century king of the
The Museo dell’Estuario houses many Huns used this marble
old church treasures. seat as his throne.

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