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A quick 2nd visit to Venice: San Giorgio or Torcello or both?

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We're doing a quick 2-night stay in Venice before taking a train to Rome before a cruise in October. We hit the highlights (including a wonderful half day in Padua) on our first 4-night Venice trip in 2024. For this visit, we want to saunter and soak up Venice leisurely, in way we didn't before. But we are curious:

  • we're assuming the cross-canal trip to San Giorgio Maggiore is worth it? How much time should we allocate for that?

  • we're intrigued by the "Sail to Byzantium" vaporetto trip outlined in Rick's Mediterranean Cruise Port book > to Burano and Torcello. Anyone done that, and what did you think?

If we could only do one, which would you recommend? Or should we squeeze in both on our only (likely busy) full day?

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We really enjoyed our visit to San Giorgio Maggiore. You can go up in the tower and have a view back on Venice. We then wandered around the gardens there so we probably spent a couple hours between that and seeing the church and going up in the tower. But you certainly don’t need to spend that much time.

We also have been to Burano and Torcello. This takes a lot longer than going to San Giorgio Maggiore. I think the vaporetto alone was about an hour each way to Burano and then later we went to Torcello. We left in the morning and probably got back about 3 pm. We enjoyed Torcello but if time is tight you could just go to Burano. Burano with its brightly colored houses is unique and I would probably put it at the top of your list. But I would guess it still might take an entire morning so maybe more time than you have.

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