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4worldlovers: The only e-shop based in Murano island with showroom and glass factory.


Original Murano Glass OMG company offers to its international customers artistic glass artworks entirely handmade in the Murano furnace with classique and/or innovative designs, according with the customer requirements.


It is characterized as a brand specialized in satisfying the needs of certifying the authenticity of original Murano glass art-works, speed and professionalism in relations with customers and enthusiasts, as well as in promoting the centenary Murano glass art. From its headquarters on the island of Murano, where every year numerous customers have the pleasure of visiting its furnace and its showroom, Original Murano Glass OMG brings one of the most authentic expressions of Made in Italy craftsmanship to homes around the world.

The team made up of professionals in the sector and skilled artisans is in fact available to customers and curious in offering top quality artifacts and works rigorously made according to traditional Murano techniques. The direct relationship with customers, both private individuals looking for a special object and expert collectors, but also companies, artists and interior designers, allows Original Murano Glass OMG to guarantee the quality of the original Murano glass works proposed in the its extensive e-shop catalog, and to create an inimitable network between the professionalism of its collaborators, the tradition and innovation of a well-known and internationally recognized sector.


In our store customer can choose from a vast variety of all type of Murano glass production executed with the highest levels of tecnique and creativity: glass sculptures, blown glass articles, bowls, centerpieces, vases, plates, goblets, glassware, millefiori glass, venetian beads, jewelry, venetian mirrors, chandeliers, table lamps and more.

Original Murano Glass OMG store is the first official online store of the most prestigious and emerging glass masters of Venice.


Each artglass is carefully selected by our experts to provide the highest quality glassworks, made in Italy.


Everyday we update our catalogue with new and exclusive Murano glass masterpieces.


We are specialized in realized tailormade gifts, events gifts, wedding favors, and corporate gifts, as bulk order.


Each piece is unique, therefore we can customize artworks upon request to fulfill our customers’ requirements to realize extraordinary colorful products as only Original Murano Glass OMG can give.


100% Authentic Murano glass produced in our furnaces, and delivered with our Certificate of Authenticity Original Murano Glass OMG.


14 Days Money back guarantee, from the moment you recieve the piece you have 14 days to decide whether to send it back to us and get your money refund.


Our customers consider Excellent our products and customer service, read their reviews in TrustedShop.


The biggest collection of Murano glass artworks with more then 3000 objects in stock that permit us to send in prompt delivery, usefull for last time gift ideas.

4worldlovers: Architecture Mosaics Sculpture The Treasure and the Pala d'Oro St. Mark's Museum The campanile The Musical Tradition Essential chronology

The campanile of St. Mark’s is an imposing square plan tower about 99 metres high, crowned by a spire that was once a lighthouse for shipping. It is the prototype of all the campaniles of the lagoon area. It was first built in the 12th century on the site of what was probably a watchtower and rebuilt in its current form early in the 16th centurywith the addition of a belfry and with the spire faced in copper and topped by a sort of rotating platform with a statue of the Archangel Gabriel which functioned as a weathercock.

Of the five original bells only the largest remains. The others, now replaced, were destroyed when the tower collapsed in 1902. From the belfry loggia there is a spectacular bird’s eye view of the city and the lagoon.

Against the base of the campanile is the balcony built by Jacopo Sansovino between 1537 and 1549 and decorated with marbles and bronzes .

Begun on pre-existing Roman foundations in the 9th century and rebuilt several times between the 12th and 14th centuries, the campanile took on its definitive appearance, after much restoration and reworking, between 1511 and 1514.

It consists of a solid square brickwork frame with lesenes, 12 metres wide and 49.5 metres high (half its full height of 98.6 metres), and the arched belfry on which a large dado stands that serves as a base for the pyramidal spire topped by the golden angel.

Simple, of Roman concept in its severe harmony of line and proportions, the tower with the shining golden angel set on a rotating platform at the top has always been the first sight of Venice for those arriving by sea,. Struck several times by lightning and by earthquakes it continued its centuries-old life until the beginning of the 20th century.

On 14th July 1902 the campanile suddenly collapsed as a result of imprudent constructional work. The damage was not irreparable: the “proclamation stone” at the corner of the church prevented collapse of the corner column, thus saving the church. The Balcony however was buried under the rubble.

News of the collapse spread throughout the world and the Municipal Administration resolved that the Campanile should be rebuilt exactly as it had been.

The first stone was laid on 25th April 1903 and nine years later, in 1912, on St. Mark’s day, the new campanile was inaugurated. Externally the building was a faithful copy but was built, for greater safety and static stability, in accordance with the more rigorous laws on construction technique. Certain destroyed parts were reintegrated: on two sides of the dado above the belfry, alternated with the Justices, the two moving Lions in Istria stone replaced those sculpted at the time of the fall of the Republic, and the embossed copper statue of the Archangel Gabriel that topped the tower was recomposed with the original fragments and almost entirely redone, copying the old 1822 model.

4worldlovers: My 2 adult children and I took this tour, as our time was limited, and boy did it deliver! Excellent overview of Venice, all the highlights! A lot of walking, but a gondola ride and lunch break in the middle makes it work. And got to see and hear about areas in the city that we wouldn’t ordinarily have been able to see.

We thoroughly enjoyed Carolyn’s Yummy Cooking class. It was a delight for all of us, my husband, 2 teens and me! Not only did we learn about Italian cooking, but Carolyn gave us many insights to living and working in Venice