Chiesa di San Beneto Venezia

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Detail of the facade.

The church of San Benedetto, Beneto in Venetian, is located near the campi San Luca and Sant'Angelo; it is currently closed for worship, but in the past it housed schools of arts and crafts and confraternities such as the Cuochi and Scalchi.

The structure, as you see it today, is quite different from the original one: its size and orientation have changed over time.

The church was built in the early 11th century thanks to some families living in the area and in 1013 the Falier family decided to sell it to the monastery of Brondolo. Only in 1435, thanks to the intervention of Pope Eugene IV, did it become an independent parish.

In the early seventeenth century, being in severe decline, the patriarch Giovanni Tiepolo decided to refound it thanks also to the economic aid of the Contarini family and it was consecrated in 1695.

Originally it was divided into three naves, oriented to the east and had a Romanesque bell tower, with a

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