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Museo di Torcello
Small but sweet
In this pleasant grab-bag in the Palazzo del Consiglio, you’ll find architectural fragments from the 6th–12th centuries, a pair of bocche di leone (the long arm of the Ten reached even here), a lovely 6th-century marble holy-water stoup from Murano, and a few gilded silver reliefs from the cathedral altarpiece – Napoleon stole the rest of them.
Upstairs, among big soppy canvases from followers of Veronese, there’s the cathedral’s original door key, Byzantine ceramics, coins and jewellery, Byzantine and Cretan-Venetian icons from the 1400s, and a big jolly cinquecento St Christopher with fish swimming around his toes.
Hours Nov 11—Feb: 10am—5pm; Mar—10 Nov: 10.30am—5.30am, closed Mon.
Adm €4, €1.50 ages 6-12, free under 6 and EU citizens over 65; €9 combined with the Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta
Piazza di Torcello
vaporetto Torcello
+39 041 730761
Image by Serviziocultura, Creative Commons License