While in lovely Venice these guys with ID tags around their neck kept trying to get tourists to go with them to tour Murano art galleries. Finally they roped us in, took us on a boat ride (took us on a ride alright...) It was interesting to watch first hand how they do the blown glass. There was one man... More

I heared about Murano glass but being there was really impressing, millions of shapes & shades of glasses, you got to see it. More

We went on a boat trip which included the Murano glass gallery, There was a demonstration where we watched a guy make a few pieces just fantastic then we had a 15 minutes to walk around and look at all the glass objects for sale. More

Purchased October 2000, a Murano glass layered stand weighing approximately 100 lbs. The stand was shipped to Florida keys. The stand had been moved four times over the years (same room) when it came apart December 2011. .Glass layer seperated at 7th level and need special glue to fuse/bond section of glass layers together. Where do I get glue, or... More

Our hotel had a taxi take us over to the factory for free. They showed us how the glass was made we also looked at all the glass for sale. We ended up buying a vase. the staff was very nice and helpful. More

We were persuaded by our hotel on arrival to take a free boat trip...we were given a demonstration, followed about the glass displays which were impressive and brought some items. When we returned to Venice we found out that we had been sold Chinese replicas from this place. Also the same stuff was all over the souvenir shops for a... More

Before going into the showroom, we were treated to an exhibition by one of the glass makers. He demonstrated two different methods that is used by the glass makers. The little extras he added were great (no spoilers on here). The commentary from the manager(?) was also very good. The products on offer are high quality and I had trouble... More

This is on excursion you have to go when in Venice ; the whole trip to Murano was cool ,including glass gallery and glass ware you can find all over the island ;if you have a three day vaporetto pass it is included in as well as a trip to the other island Burano ; can do both in one... More

So, all the guide books said we should go to Murano to see the glass blowing and the high quality of the products produced there. You can get great bargains there, they said. So, after are first visit to Piazza San Marco (St Marks Plaza), and on our way to the Vaporetto stop back to the hotel we succumbed to... More