Originally, in the 10th century, the monastery was built by Blessed Giovanni Morosini in 982 at the behest of Doge Tribuno Memmo who gave it to him for this purpose. In addition to being a place of worship, the...
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Pinna nobilis is the name of a large marine invertebrate, also known under the name of sea castanet, stura or palostrega, an endemic species of the Mediterranean (i.e. present only in this area) as well as one of the...
In the first years of the fourteenth century a small institute was built for the shelter of women in poverty, with an adjoining small oratory which was then demolished in the second half of the fifteenth; the same was...
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