Il campo dei Frari

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The Frari's field — (Venipedia/Bazzmann Archive)

Organised around the enormous terracotta structure of the church of the same name and extending as far as the rio, this field has a real well at its widest point and also includes the former convent (now the State Archive) and the bell tower, one of the tallest in Venice.

The basilica, in its simplicity and elegance, seems to emerge from a dream, to enrich this place, with a pleasing blend of brick and Istrian stone giving dynamism and lightness to the building.

The Friars Minor of the order of San Francesco (precisely called Frari), arrived in Venice in the thirteenth century (sources attest to its presence between 1222 and 1227).

They lived on alms or practiced humble jobs and it seems that initially they were mainly hosted in the churches of San Lorenzo and San Silvestro. Their exponential growth meant that in the first place he was granted a permanent residence (an ancient abandoned abbey of the Benedictine order votive to the Virgin Mary) and later in 1236 a larger area between the area of ​​San Stin and San Tomà called Badoer Lake

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