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After a long day of palace museum-hopping, cross the canal to unwind in this se-
rene spa. The Palladio-designed former nunnery offers baths of milk, honey and
rose petals (€90) with complimentary jacuzzi and marble steam-room access. (
041 5207022;
www.palladiohotelspa.com
; Fondamenta della Croce 33;
Zitelle)
Local Life
Colourful Burano
Photographers pack the 50-minute Laguna Nord (LN) ferry ride from Fondamente
Nuove for snapshots of pea-green stockings drying between Burano's hot-pink, royal-
blue and caution-orange houses.
Burano is locally famed for fishing, lemony S-shaped
buranelli
biscuits and hand-
Museum; 041 4273 0892;
www.visitmuve.it
;
adult/reduced €5/3.50; 10am-6pm Tue-Sun Apr-Oct, to
4.30pm Nov-Mar; Burano)
, where local lacemakers plying their craft. For handmade Bur-
041 73 52 99;
www.emiliaburano.it
; Piazza Galuppi 205;
Burano)
.
bottle of
prosecco
to cheer rowers making the 32km 'long row' from central Venice to
Burano and back.
Eating
5
Le Garzette
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FARMSTAY
