Of the Baptistery, which once constituted one of the Early Christian architectural elements together with the cathedral, the bell tower, and the martyrium, there are today only a few remnants of the primitive 7th-century construction in front of the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta in Torcello. It is believed that the building held a basin of blessed water that gushed from the mouths of symbolic animals. Some scholars believed that the building was related to the nearby church of Santa Fosca, while more in-depth and recent studies have connected the construction of the Bapt
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