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The ancient clappers, exhibited in the cloister of the Church of Santa Caterina - (Marco Trevisan, Archivio Venipedia / Bazzmann)

A bell tower guards the oldest bell in Venice, and one of the oldest in Europe.

There are no certain sources on the dating of the bell tower of Santa Caterina but its architectural characteristics attribute it to the fourteenth century, as well as one of its bells. Before the Benedictine monastery was demolished, its walls leaned against those of the tower.

The bell tower has been remodeled several times due to bad weather: in 1762 thanks to the will of a nun, in 1910 at the behest of the parish priest Don Giuseppe Camozzo, in 1987 thanks to the will of Monsignor Ettore Fornezza and finally in 2016 thanks to the interest of the parish priest Don Enzo Piasen

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