Murano

Murano, famous as the seat of the Venetian glass manufacture, is an island and town a little more than a mile north of Venice, with 3600 inhabitants. It possesses a fine 12th-century cathedral, and another church with some valuable pictures, including Paul Veronese's 'St Jerome in the Desert.' But the chief interest centres in the glass-factories—an industry established in the 13th century, and revived in 1860 by Antonio Salviati (1816-90).