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Church of San Rocco — (Archivio Venipedia/Bazzmann)

To Saint Roch, the patron saint of plague victims, is dedicated this place of worship whose façade is made of white Istrian stone.
It is set in a delicate and sincere patch of the same name, occupied, in part, by the back of the enormous Basilica of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari.

Built by Bartolomeo Bon, the church of San Rocco has a single nave with an apsed presbytery and two side chapels.

In 1725 the church was radically restructured by Giovanni Scalfarotto. The interior of the church now consists of a single nave with four lateral altars and two apsidal chapels and is decorated with paintings by Giovanni Antonio Fumiani, Sebastiano Ricci and Jacopo Tintoretto, in particular the four canvases with the stories of St Roch, including the amazing St Roch Healing the Plague-Stricken of 1549. Fragments of Pordenone’s presbytery decoration are preserved on t

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