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Torcello Island Wheelchair Accessible Tours

Torcello Island wheelchair accessible tours, inhabited even before Venice was founded.

Today it has few inhabitants, a single square, a few hotels and two splendid churches.

Despite this, or perhaps for this reason, today Torcello Island wheelchair accessible tours is one of the islands preferred by tourists.

The calm and the important historical and archaeological evidence make it the ideal place to spend a day without the hustle and bustle of Venice.

The great rise of Venice in the following centuries and the progressive redirection of the most important activities towards it, accentuated the decline of Torcello definitively depopulated by the swamps of the lagoon.

The bishopric also left the island in the mid 1600s and moved to Murano.

Private Torcello Island Wheelchair Accessible Tours

Torcello Island wheelchair accessible tours Venice with a guide and cruise shore excursions.

Accessible Italian Holiday provide a safe and a full accessible tours around it at previewed itineraries.

Visit this rich and fascinating land with a specialised tourist guide.

Adapted van transportation specifically designed for disabled tourists traveling on holiday to Italy.

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With the decline of Torcello Island, the island was transformed into an immense quarry.

The buildings going into disrepair which were dismantled to provide bricks and construction material for the construction development of Venice.

Fortunately, the resistance of the inhabitants made it possible to preserve the medieval forms of the Basilica and the Church of Santa Fosca.

Avoiding the reconstruction in the Renaissance or Baroque style, as happened for almost all the churches in Venice.

Walking along the main river of Torcello Island wheelchair accessible tours, in an area where there are only vegetable gardens today, you will come across the Ponte del Diavolo.

According to a local legend, it was built in one night by the devil and therefore remained unfinished.

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Torcello Island wheelchair accessible tours.

Unmissable visit at it with our Venice Accessible Tours specifically tailored to wheelchair users, reduced mobility persons and disabled with an adapted boat and adapted van.