Facciata esterna della chiesa e della cappella Emiliani — (Didier Descouens)

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External façade of the Emiliani church and chapel — (Didier Descouens)

A dazzling white Istrian stone façade, easily recognisable even from afar and unique for the time in which it was built.
Next to the church is the Emiliani Chapel, an architectural masterpiece, the only polygonal Renaissance building in the lagoon city.

The place of worship, located inside the island of San Michele, was built for the first time in 1221 after the bishops of Torcello and San Pietro di Castello assigned the island area to the Camaldolese Benedictine monks. The building, consecrated by Ugolino di Segni, had three naves of which only the Gothic portal remains today.

The architectural structure - which we can still enjoy today - is the work of a young Mauro Codussi, nicknamed Moro or Moretto by some, and can be considered his first important achievement that made him appreciate and launched him on the Venetian and na

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