A Touch of Glass in Venice
On the monkey’s third day in Italy, he and Mrs. Kongo took a water taxi across the water to the little island of Murano to check out a glass factory and see the sights. In the image above, rods to hold the glass being worked are being heated in the oven. Murano is about half a mile north of Venice, accessible only by water. Hundreds of years ago city fathers moved all glass making activity to this little island in order to prevent fires in Venice and to ensure the proprietary glass-making process developed in Venice was kept away from the prying eyes of competitors.
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