The San Lorenzo field is closely connected to the present religious center which, according to popular tradition, seems to have been founded between the 6th and 7th centuries. According to history, however, it was built thanks to the contribution of the patrician Partecipazio family who erected first a convent of Benedictine nuns in the 9th century and then the church of San Lorenzo, at the service of the monastery. Until the end of the nineteenth century, access to the field was very different from what we find today, in that a narrow street connected to the Fondamenta had to be crossed by
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