Mazzorbo is an island in the northern Venetian Lagoon, linked to Burano by a bridge. It was once an important trading centre but is now known for its vineyards and orchards. Its main attraction is the fourteenth century Church of Santa Caterina, and there is also a brightly painted housing development, designed in 1979 by Giancarlo De Carlo. The Venetian Lagoon The Venetian Lagoon or the Venetian Riviera is a lagoon off the Adriatic Sea in which the city of Venice is situated. ... Colourfully painted houses on Burano. ... A log bridge A bridge is a structure built to span a gorge, valley, road, railroad track, river, body of water, or any other physical obstacle. ... A vineyard Vineyard with bird netting Wine grapes with netting as protection against birds A vineyard (vignoble in French, vigna or vigneto in Italian, vinha in Portuguese, viña or viñedo in Spanish, Weinberg in German) is a place where grapes are grown for making wine, raisins, or table... An orchard is an intentional planting of trees or shrubs maintained for food production. ... (13th century - 14th century - 15th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 14th century was that century which lasted from 1301 to 1400. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... Sverre Fehn and Giancarlo De Carlo Giancarlo De Carlo was born in Genoa, Italy in 1919 and died in Milan the 4th of June 2005. ...

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In the aerial view (below) Mazzorbo is the long island with a straight promenade to the south-east; it is connected by bridge to the densely populated and brightly painted Burano. The housing growing to the west from the Burano link, is the only built fragment of Giancarlo De Carlo's larger proposal for overspill housing for local families. It is very carefully designed based on a radical 'reading' of the local vernacular. See Giancarlo De Carlo: Layered Places by John McKean (Menges, Stuttgart and Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2004).