Church of San Martino Vescovo
Even today it is not known exactly when the church was founded, some believe - also given the dedication to San Martino - dating back to the eighth century by the Lombard colonies or by families of Ferrara who fled...
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Church of San Marziale
Slightly set back from the noisy and crowded Strada Nova, the church dedicated to San Marziale or San Marcilliano bishop of Limoges, looks like an austere and bare religious building with external walls devoid of any...
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Church of San Maurizio
The origins of the church are very ancient: it was built in 699 by the will of the Candiana family called Sanudo and titled to Saints Maurizio, Lazzaro and Adriano. In 1105 the building underwent an extensive fire...
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Church of San Michele in Isola
The place of worship, located inside the island of San Michele, was built for the first time in 1221 after the bishops of Torcello and San Pietro di Castello assigned the island area to the Camaldolese Benedictine...
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Church of San Nicolò da Tolentino
Known as the church of the Tolentini, it was designed in 1591 by Vincenzo Scamozzi at the behest of the Order of Regular Theatine Clerics but after a few years from the start of the works, due to too great economic...
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Church of San Nicolò dei Mendicoli
Tradition holds that this church is one of the oldest in Venice; it is believed that it was built in the 7th century and was one of the 25 places of worship that were destroyed in the fire of 1106. The dedication to...
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Church of San Nicolò di Lido
When Venice won the Lepanto war in 1571, the bells of the bell tower of San Nicolò were the first to announce the great victory, as the Benedictine fathers were the first to see the ships returning to the lagoon....
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Church of San Pantalon
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...
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Church of San Pietro di Castello
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 construction of the...
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Church of San Salvador
The foundation of the church dates back to the 7th century, by S.Magno bishop, who named it after Jesus the Savior. In the XII century it was destroyed by a fire and more precisely in 1167, it was subsequently...
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Church of San Samuele
The church was built, for the first time, around the year 1000 on the initiative of the Bondù family and was dedicated to San Matteo Apostolo. It was destroyed by two fires, one in 1005 and one in 1007 and rebuilt. Six...
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Church of San Sebastiano
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...
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Church of San Servilio
The very first settlements on the island of San Servolo date back to the 7th century when a company of Benedictine monks occupied it. At the time, a church already existed and was dedicated to San Cristoforo. Shortly...
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Church of San Simeon Piccolo
Church named after Saints Simeon and Judas and commonly called San Simeon Piccolo to distinguish it from the nearby church of San Simeone Profeta (San Simeon Grande). The building was erected approximately between...
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Church of San Stae
The exact origins of the church of San Stae, in Italian Sant'Eustachio are not known, but it seems that it already existed in the 12th century. Eustachio - hunter - lived between the 1st and 2nd centuries and, under...
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Church of San Tomà
The building apparently dates back to the 10th century and was built on land once owned by the Tonisto family. Dedicated to St. Thomas the Apostle (San Tomà in Venetian), in the following centuries it underwent several...
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Church of San Trovaso
The church, of very ancient origins, is dedicated to Saints Gervasio and Protasio, vulgarly San Trovaso. Rebuilt for the first time in 1028 thanks to the Barbarigo and Caravella families, it was saved from ruin; in...
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Church of San Vidal
The church was built in 1084 by the will of the doge Vitale Falier who dedicated it to his homonymous saint. It underwent a first remodeling in the 12th century during which the bell tower was also put in hand and a...
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Church of San Zan Degolà
San Zan Degolà is the dialect terminology for San Giovanni Decollato. Its origins are uncertain, some scholars date it to the 7th and 8th centuries while others date it to the early 11th century. Certainly, the...
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Church of San Zulian
Place of worship titled to the martyr of Antioch San Giuliano, who with his wife Basilissa, was tortured in 304 in Alexandria. The ancient church was erected for the first time in the 9th century and was destroyed...
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Church of Sant'Agnese
Its construction date is uncertain, even if very ancient, some place it at the end of the 10th century while others make it belong to the following century. Its first rebuilding dates back to the early twelfth century...
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Church of Sant'Alvise
It is said that Luigi Ludovico d'Angiò (Alvise in Venice) gave up taking the throne of king of Naples to wear the Franciscan habit and lead a retired life in poverty but that Pope Boniface VIII chose him to cover the...
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Church of Sant'Andrea of the Zirada
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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Church of Sant'Aponal
The church was built towards the middle of the 11th century and dedicated to Sant'Apollinare, vulgo S. Aponal, thanks to donations from the Rampan (or Rampani) and Scievola (or Sievoli) families of Ravenna. It...
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