La parte alta della facciata della Chiesa di San Francesco di Paola.

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This church is located in one of the few places where you can still breathe a little of that authentic, straightforward and jovial Venetian spirit: Via Garibaldi, in the lively Castello district.
A curiosity: on the façade, in the top right-hand corner, a clock is painted that marks half past nine. Some say it marks the time of the Saint's death.
The clock is painted on the façade.

At the end of the 13th century the bishop of Castello Bartolomeo Querini deposited a legacy for the construction of a hospital for the elderly; shortly after, an oratory dedicated to San Bartolomeo was erected, although there was already a church dedicated to the Apostle.

In 1558 the two buildings began to show the first signs of subsidence and, with the few resources available, were partially restored; at the end of the 16th century, luck wanted the entire complex, including the hospital and the church, to be entrusted to two friars of the Order of Minims with the obligation of

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