Insula Torcello
Venice began on this outer island Torcello, founded here from the 7th century, and until the 12th century, it was a flourishing commercial city.Of the palaces, churches, naval sites and their docks, there are only two churches and a handful of houses, punctuated over the great island.It is considered the best example of Venetian-Byzantine architecture.It was rebuilt in 834 and 1008, and the porch and two lateral apses were added in the 9th century;Much of the building dates from the eleventh century.The mosaics that cover the interior are remarkable. In the older lines of them are in the head of the Great Altar, where the angels from the eleventh century carrying a medallion with the Lamb of God show a strong Byzantine influence.By the parents of the church;Grigorie, Martin, Ambrose and Augustin;They were added later, together with Christ in Majesty between two Archangels.The western wall is covered with levels of a Byzantine mosaic of the then judgment from the end of the 12th century or the beginning of the thirteenth century.previous.The admission ticket includes the small interesting historical museum with antiquity artifacts until the sixteenth century.