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Santa Lucia, patron saint of sight and of those who suffer from it, has found rest in this church. From the Grand Canal you can admire the other façade, in white Istrian stone. Its bell tower is one of the oldest in Venice.

The church underwent a series of transformations: it was demolished, rebuilt and enlarged for the first time in 1200 at the behest of the Doge Sebastiano Ziani and, subsequently, it was again demolished and rebuilt in the eighteenth century by the Lombard architect Carlo Corbellino.

The second reconstruction works of the church were very long and led to a project with a Greek cross plan (probably inspired by the model of the Salute church) and with two arms ending in a circular apse and at their intersection a dome rises. oval shape. The work can be considered completed only in

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