Church of San Bartolomeo
The church, built in the 9th century, was initially dedicated to Saint Demetrius of Thessalonica and, after the restructuring in the 1170th century, named after Saint Bortolomeo, a saint known for having been skinned...
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Church of San Beneto
The church was built in the early 11th century thanks to some families living in the area and in 1013 the Falier family decided to sell it to the monastery of Brondolo. Only in 1435, thanks to the intervention of Pope...
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Church of San Biagio
The church of San Biagio - dedicated to San Biagio bishop and martyr as well as known as San Biagio dei Marinai - is located beyond the Arsenale bridge also known as San Biagio and finds space in the homonymous field...
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Church of San Bonaventura
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...
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Church of San Canciano
On the facade of the church you can see a plaque indicating the dates of construction and its renovations. It is among the oldest in the city and dedicated to the brothers of Aquileia Canzio, Canziano and...
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Church of San Fantin
The church seems to have been built for the first time in the 9th century on the initiative of the patrician families Barozzi, Aldicina and Equilia. It was rebuilt between the 12th and 13th centuries thanks to the...
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Church of San Felice
It is said that the origin of the church dedicated to San Felice martire is very ancient, around the 10th century, by the hand of the patrician Gallina family, coming from Jesolo or the Treviso area. The first official...
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Church of San Francesco della Vigna
The area where the church of San Francesco della Vigna is located remained largely uninhabited for a long time and the only activities detected seem to be some warehouses used for timber. The primitive church and...
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Church of San Francesco di Paola
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,...
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Church of San Geremia
The church underwent a series of transformations: it was demolished, rebuilt and enlarged for the first time in 1200 at the behest of the Doge Sebastiano Ziani and, subsequently, it was again demolished and rebuilt in...
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Church of San Giacomo dall'Orio
Founded, presumably, around the IX-X century and according to some it was appealed by the Orio for having been built on that marshy island then reclaimed called Luprio; others think that the name derives from a family...
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Church of San Giacomo di Rialto
The first documents in which the Church of San Giacomo is mentioned date back to 1152, but tradition has it that it was the first building built in the Rialto area - erected the same year as the foundation of Venice -...
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Church of San Giobbe
The church owes its construction to two personalities: San Bernardino da Siena (particularly active and present in Venice towards the middle of the 15th century) and the doge Cristoforo Moro (who contributed...
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Church of San Giovanni Crisostomo
Erected in the 11th century and completely rebuilt and restructured in the second half of the 15th century on a project by Mauro Codussi who, however, could not see the end of his work as he passed away; the works were...
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Church of San Giovanni Elemosinario
The church was built in 1525-28 on a project by Antonio Abbondi, called the Scarpagnino, in the area of the Rialto Market to replace the previous church, built between the 9th and 10th centuries, burned in the...
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Church of San Giovanni Evangelista
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 church is located near the Basilica of Santa Maria...
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Church of San Giovanni in Bragora
Its construction date is uncertain, the first is dated around 829 the second, perhaps the most certain, around 1090. Legend has it that the bishop of Oderzo, San Magno, directly received from God the order to build...
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Church of San Girolamo
Little is known about this church, its construction dates back to the mid-fourteenth century thanks to some nuns of the order of Sant'Agostino. It is said that two nuns in S. Maria degli Angeli in Murano, Bernarda...
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Church of San Giuseppe
Its construction, together with that of the nearby convent later entrusted to the Augustinian nuns, is presumed to have taken place immediately after 1512 on the senatorial decree of the Serenissima. the place where it...
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Church of San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti
In the Dorsoduro district, as early as 1224, there was a hospital dedicated to the treatment of lepers named after San Lazzaro and, almost forty years later, to avoid the risk of epidemics, it was moved to an island in...
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Church of San Leonardo
You come across Strada Nova - from the train station towards Campo dei Santi Apostoli -, on the right shortly after crossing the Ponte delle Guglie, in the Campo of the same name. To see it you have to pay attention,...
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Church of San Lorenzo
It is said that the church was founded in ancient times between the sixth and seventh centuries while it is known from historical sources that, thanks to the contribution of the patrician Partecipazio family, in the...
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Church of San Luca
The date of construction of the church is still uncertain even if according to the Corner it is to be placed at the end of the 11th century, before 1072; it seems to have been built by the will of the noble Dandolo and...
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Church of San Marcuola
Popular belief believes that the church of Saints Ermagora and Fortunato, transformed into "San Marcuola" in the Venetian dialect, was built on an island called Lemeneo between the 9th and 10th centuries by some...
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