Wide Angle on an Ancient Art

Walking through Murano, you feel as though you are crossing a strip of land gently reclaimed from the sea – a slender thread holding together houses, bridges, and silences. The canal flows slowly like a thought, green and deep, carrying within it the reflection of everything: the full blue of the sky, the pastel façades, the dark windows that guard their stories. Every color seems to rise from the water and return to it, as if the light had been poured by hand, with the same care with which master glassmakers shape fire in their workshops.

Murano is a living mirror: what seems fragile here is also what speaks most powerfully. Glass – transparent, delicate, daring – becomes the emblem of a creativity that has traveled the world and given this country an international voice. Yet beauty, if not protected, can fade: and the community is called to safeguard this light, so that it will not be lost to time.