Campo Sant'Agnese, as happens for most of the Venetian fields, takes its name from the adjacent place of worship dedicated to the patron saint of young women and gardeners. The sixteenth-century well from the field is of considerable size, made up of six faces: in one of these appears Sant'Agnese with the palm of martyrdom and the representation of the lamb, presumed because of the similarity with the Latin word agnus (whose diminutive is agnĕllus) and which means, in fact, lamb.
The heart of the field is represented by the ancient Church of Sant'Agnese, whose construction date is
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