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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 19/07/2026 20:30:00

A small island in the northern Venetian lagoon, approximately seven kilometres from Venice proper, renowned worldwide for its intensely coloured fishermen's houses and its centuries-old tradition of needle-lace production. The island's visual identity is defined by the practice of painting houses in vivid primary and secondary colours -- a tradition variously attributed to helping fishermen identify their homes through lagoon fog, to distinguishing property boundaries, or simply to local aesthet...