Church of Sant'Eufemia
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. It...
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Church of Santa Caterina Vergine and Martire
The first monumental complex, consisting of a hospital and a church, seems to have been erected in the 8th century while the current building, connected with the adjacent female monastery, which does not exist today,...
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Church of Santa Croce
The church of Santa Croce overlooked the Grand Canal while the apse overlooked the Rio dei Tolentini. The façade was severe and austere, composed of three notable portals, the largest of which, in particular, was...
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Church of Santa Croce degli Armeni
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. This babel of languages and traditions led to the...
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Church of Santa Fosca
Its realization derives from the cult of the homonymous saint whose body, in the 10th century, was transported to the island of Torcello; this, according to tradition, seems to be the origins of the building but there...
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Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli
The church and the adjoining monastery were built starting in 1188, the year in which the noble Ginevra Gradenigo donated land with "adjacent waters" to the Abadessa Giacomina Boncio to make it a place of worship;...
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Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli
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. Immediately...
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Church of Santa Maria dei Servi
The imposing religious place dedicated to the Servants of Mary, still visible today only minimally, shows its majesty in two of the very few images that have come down to us: a particular View of the Church of RR. PP...
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Church of Santa Maria del Carmelo or dei Carmini
The adjoining convent dates back to the end of the 13th century by the Carmelite friars while the church was built in 1286 and consecrated in 1348. Towards the end of the 15th century, the place of worship underwent...
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Church of Santa Maria del Giglio
The church of S. Maria del Giglio or S. Maria Zobenico was built in the 10th century by commission of the Jubanico family. Of particular importance is its facade, the work of the architect Giuseppe Sardi da Morcote...
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Church of Santa Maria dell'Assunzione
The church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was built in the fifteenth century, on a pre-existing building of the eleventh century, and was then remodeled again in the sixteenth century. The façade, divided into three...
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Church of Santa Maria della Misericordia
The church, initially dedicated to Santa Maria di Val Verde, is firmly intertwined with the fate of the Confraternity of Mercy which in the area built a series of infrastructures dedicated to the confreres, from the...
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Church of Santa Maria della Presentazione (delle Zitelle)
Building which is part of the ecclesiastical complex of Santa Maria della Presentation set up to assist girls without husbands and without dowry because they are poor (hence the nickname "delle Zitelle") who were often...
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Church of Santa Maria delle Penitenti
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...
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Church of Santa Maria Formosa
Of very ancient origin (it is assumed around the seventh century), legend has it that one night the Madonna appeared in a dream in "vague form" to the then Bishop of Oderzo San Magno, ordering him to build a temple in...
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Church of Santa Maria Maddalena
The foundation date of the church owned by the noble Baffo family seems to date back to 1222, where an oratory dedicated to Santa Maria Maddalena Penitente was erected. In 1758 it was decided to announce a...
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Church of Santa Maria Maggiore
In 1483 a group of devoted women asked for permission to build a monastery that would welcome them at Sant'Agnese in Dorsoduro. Not having obtained what they wanted, they were granted the area of the arzeri novi in...
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Church of Santa Marta
The church was built in the early 14th century on the initiative of Giacomina Scorpioni and with the donations of numerous Venetian patricians including Marco Sanudo Torsello and Filippo Salomon. This economic...
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Church of Santa Sofia
The church was founded in the early eleventh century, underwent several renovations during the following centuries up to the last one dating back to the last years of the seventeenth century by Antonio Gaspari. In...
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Church of Santi XII Apostoli
Legend has it that the church was built by the will of the bishop of Oderzo San Magno, to whom the twelve apostles appeared during the prayer and told him to build a church in Venice dedicated to them. In the...
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Church of St. John of Malta (or of the Friulians)
The name of the church was always linked to the votive saint (San Giovanni Battista), however the remaining denomination has varied over the course of history depending on the owners. It was founded between the 11th...
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Church of the Angelo Raffaele
Legend has it that San Magno, bishop of Oderzo - the place where he lived as a hermit -, founded eight Venetian churches: Santi Apostoli, San Giovanni in Bragora, Santa Giustina, Santa Maria Formosa, San Pietro di...
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Church of the Cappuccine
The church was founded by a group of nuns of the Capuchin order, who obtained permission to settle in a building on the ancient foundations of the Cross, later called the Capuchins. It all began with Angela Crasso who...
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Church of the Eremite
It is said that the history of the monastery began in 1688 thanks to a bequest to the Church of Santo Donadoni (in the church there is a plaque showing the debt of gratitude for the donation), which allowed the Hermit...
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