Chiesa di San Biagio Venezia

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The church - dedicated to St Blaise, bishop and martyr - was built in the mid-9th century near the Arsenal bridge in an area, probably an island, called Ladrio or Adrio. This church represented, for several years, a model of peaceful coexistence between the Roman Catholic and Greek Byzantine rites.
Today, the church is an integral part of the Naval Historical Museum and a military parish.

The church of San Biagio - dedicated to San Biagio bishop and martyr as well as known as San Biagio dei Marinai - is located beyond the Arsenale bridge also known as San Biagio and finds space in the homonymous field renamed Angelo Emo in 1889, in the Castello district .

Proceeding along the fondamenta that leads towards viale Garibaldi, the building seems to be located in a marginal place but it must be considered that, in the years in which it was built, the urban situation was completely different. After the fall of the Republic, in fact, the banks were widened towards the Sa

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