As you will have noticed, Burano is also the island of coloured houses, from red, purple, pink to green, blue, yellow and many more. Most houses are painted in bright and vivid colours, perhaps to give a welcome contrast to to the subtler, darker shades of the lagoon; the reason for it all is to mark the precise boundaries of a family’s property, which ends where the colour ends. In the past it was the Council who decided what colour a house would be, but this has changed recently, and every household can choose to paint their house any way they wish. No better example than Bepi’s house, also called the Lego house, for its eclectic mix of different colours and shapes.
