Two ornate gondola-style boats moored at a Murano dock, the Campanile of San Pietro Martire and the clock tower of the Palazzo da Mula rising behind. The composition reads as timeless. The mood reads as overcast and quiet in the way that suggests not tranquility but vacancy — a beautiful place that has outlasted its own reason for being. On what Murano and Burano deliver beneath the scenery: Murano and Burano Are Beautiful for About Five Minutes.