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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
Basilica di Santa Maria dell’
Assunta: Tel 041 73 01 19.
Open Mar–Oct: 10:30am–6pm
daily; Nov–Feb: 10am–5pm daily.
& 9 Campanile: Open Apr–
Oct: 10:30am–5:30pm daily; Nov–
Mar 10am–5pm daily. & Santa
Fosca: Open Mass: 10am–4:30pm
daily. Museo: Tel 041 73 07 61.
Open Mar–Oct:10:30am–5:30pm
Tue–Sun; Nov–Feb: 10am–5pm
Torcello’s Last Canals Tue–Sun. Closed public hols. &
Silted canals and malaria hastened Torcello’s decline. One of the
remaining waterways runs from the vaporetto stop to the basilica. Transport
4 No. 12 from Fondamente
Nuove to Burano, then take No. 9.
Santa Fosca
Built in the 11th
and 12th centuries
on a Greek-cross
plan, the church
has a lovely portico
and a serene
Byzantine interior.

Attila’s Throne
It was said that the
5th-century king of the
Huns used this marble seat
as his throne.

To vaporetto
boarding point

Museo dell’ Estuario
Old church treasures and
archaeological fragments
are housed here.

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