La parte alta della facciata della Chiesa di San Giovanni in Bragora.

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Dedicated to St John the Baptist, whose religious role of urging the faithful to be baptised made him very popular in Venice: his inherent protection of places near the water made the Prophet the patron saint of ferrymen and boatmen.
After all these years, the origins of this sacred place are still mysterious today: it is said to have been the result of an apparition while, on the meaning of the word Bragora, there are still many doubts and suppositions.

Its construction date is uncertain, the first is dated around 829 the second, perhaps the most certain, around 1090. Legend has it that the bishop of Oderzo, San Magno, directly received from God the order to build eight he asked and that St. John the Baptist, appearing to him, indicated the place where to build two of them, including this one.

The term "bragora" has different interpretations, one is that the word derives from the term "bragolare" a way of fishing with typical fishing gear, the second from the word "brago" that is mud and "gora" which means drainage channel, a o

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