Most bodies are moved to a ossuary on the mainland after ten years, only the very rich and famous were left undisturbed. Stravinsky and Diageliff, also Ezra Pound have not suffered the indignity of being transported to another resting place. Very few interments take place these days. People are buried on the mainland. Murano is the glass manufacturing island, with demonstrations of glass making at the many furnaces.
Showrooms are everywhere.
Many allow spectators to watch as various objects are skillfully executed by various artisans. Legend has it there were so many fires caused by the furnaces, it was decreed all glass-making activity be confined to this one island. Burano, a little farther out toward the airport is a charming small town. Houses are painted in bright colors, there is a leaning tower, not quite as famous as the one in Pizza. Picturesque in the way Carmel or New Hope or Provincetown is.