Church dedicated to San Pantalon, a dialect word for San Pantaleone di Nicomedia in Bitinia. Uncertain is the date of construction as well as the original appearance, Pope Alexander III named it for the first time in 1161, thus returning to the core…
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The church was rebuilt around the middle of the 18th century on a design by Giorgio Massari and dedicated to Santa Maria della Visitazione. The initial project approached the Palladian project of the Chiesa delle Zitelle on Giudecca, also dedicated…
The National Archaeological Museum contains an important collection of a Greek-Roman antiquities: statues, coins, cameos, ceramics, bronzes and gems. Besides this, it also contains an interesting collection of Egyptian and Assyrian-Babylonian…