The first vineyard, the final judgement

Torcello

Over a thousand years ago, the people from the Italian north-eastern coast escaped from the barbaric invasions and settled here, in the safe islands of the Venetian lagoon.

There were a couple of things they couldn’t do without: a good set of moral rules, and a glass of wine. Can you imagine them? building all this jawdropping stuff in this virginal place, and only stopping at sunset, to admire it all, enjoying a well deserved drink in the silence of paradise…