We spent the next day on the waterbus, visiting three islands off the coast of Venice, Murano, Burano and Torcello. First stop was Murano, which is by far the most famous due to its worldwide fame as glassmaker par excellence. The boat trip takes about a half hour, and dropped us off in the bustling little harbor town. The town is centered around a canal, and, just like the motherland, the wealthiest families lined the canal with their family palaces. The rest of the island is taken up by glassmaking furnaces, which provided the riches to build the canalside palaces.