La Chiesa di San Polo.

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Church of San Polo — (Archivio Venipedia/Bazzmann)

Huge and full of charm, this church can be seen even before entering the field of the same name, on the left as you walk up Salita San Polo towards the Rialto area.
On St Paul's Day 1343, there was a terrible earthquake that lasted several days and is said to have razed a thousand Venetian houses to the ground; from that day on, the saint was sadly renamed St Paul's by the earthquake.

The initial construction of this place of worship seems to date back to 837 on the decision of Pietro and Giovanni Tradonico and was dedicated to St Paul, Polo in Venetian.

The architectural style of the church is unidentifiable as the original plan of the building was with three aisles, but over the centuries various architectural and decorative elements were added during restorations. The church developed from the original Byzantine structure (the two lions at the base of the belltower are proof of this) to the Gothic style of the XV-XVI centuries, seen in the Rose window of t

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