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Torcello is an island situated in the northern lagoon of Venice placed immediately north of Burano. It lies at the heart of an area of sandbanks bounded on the south-west of the channel-channel Borgognoni Burano, south-east of the canal and north of St. Anthony from the channel of Torcello. To the north and east borders of the marshes and Rosa Centrega. He was one of the oldest and most prosperous settlements in the lagoon, until the decline following the dominance of Venice and close to changing environmental conditions. Currently the island has only about twenty residents, but the priceless archaeological heritage which still makes it a very popular tourist place.
Already inhabited in Roman times, when it was probably a resort of the nobility altino (many artefacts in the area), became the V and VI century refuge populations of nearby Altino following the barbarian invasions. It is believed that the name derives from Torricellium, name of the main tower guard Altino and maybe the neighborhood adjacent to it.
Entry into dell'Esarcato Byzantine Ravenna, following the latest and most serious invasion of the Lombards, Exiles of the city of Altino moved there also the episcopal see in 639, initiating the construction of the cathedral. The island formed, together with Mazzorbo close, Burano, Ammiana and Costanziaco, the head of bridge of trade towards the Venetian Adriatic Sea, and was so prosperous that it has tens of thousands of citizens. In the century it was rebuilt the cathedral, flanked by the new church of Santa Fosca, and until the fourteenth century, Torcello was the main center of production of wool in the Duchy of Venice. The city had its own nobility, and was governed by two councils, one major and one minor, affiancanti first ducal Gastaldo and then the mayor.
From the fifteenth century, however, the proximity to the city of Venice, resulting in unhealthy air all'impaludamento this area of the lagoon and the continuing plagues (the hardest of the fourteenth century and sixteenth century), provoked a progressive decline of the island. So much so that in 1429 the doge Francesco Foscari was forced to order the mayor of Torcello to end the ongoing pillaging of marble and stone where the inhabitants were engaged in Venice and Murano in his hometown.
Following dell'inarrestabile decline, the buildings were in ruins or were dismantled to provide bricks and building material for property development in Venice.
Despite the disappearance of the city the Diocese of Torcello, though moved to Murano, survived until 1818.
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