Some sources attest to the presence of a church dedicated to Saints Sergius and Bacchus between the fifth and sixth centuries, above which the current votive temple to St. Peter will be built.

The church and its convent dedicated to San Bonaventura were built in the seventeenth century in Cannaregio in the portion of land where the shooting range stood, in the northernmost tip of the sestiere, in front of the area known under the name o

At the end of the 13th century the bishop of Castello Bartolomeo Querini deposited a legacy for the construction of a hospital for the elderly; shortly after, an oratory dedicated to San Bartolomeo was erected, although there was already a church

The religious complex dedicated to the Penitents, consisting of the boarding school and the relative church, was built starting from 1705 with the aim of hosting young girls who had decided to leave prostitution and try to redeem themselves.

The first document that mentions the church of San Giovanni Evangelista dates back to 1187, but tradition sets the date of foundation in 970 by the Badoer family.

The Armenian people were only one of the strains of population that settled in Venice: in fact, the Greeks, Turks, Syrians, Jews, Germans, etc. were also added to it.

The building - dedicated to the four virgins of Aquileia: Eufemia, Dorotea, Tecla and Erasma made martyrs by the Roman emperor Nero - represents the oldest building in Giudecca and one of the oldest in Venice.

Nicolò di Pietro, commissioned by the Tuscan merchant Francesco Amadi, created, in 1408, an image of the "Virgin and Child between two Saints" and its owner decided to place this work outside his home.

The convent, the part of the complex to be built first, was built towards the end of the 15th century at the behest of the Benedictine nun of the noble family Marina Celsi, former abbess of the monastery of Sant'Eufemia on the island of Mazzorbo.

The foundation of the church dates back to the 7th century, by S.Magno bishop, who named it after Jesus the Savior.

The ancient church was built in wood in the 9th century and was dedicated to San Giorgio Maggiore; term "major" to distinguish it from the church of the same name located on the island of San Giorgio in Alga.

The site stands on a small convent and a hospice built by the monks of San Girolamo around the middle of the fourteenth century; next to it was also founded the oratory dedicated to Santa Maria Assunta which was shortly after transformed into a ch