Frammento dell'opera "Il Martirio di San Pantalon" di Giovanni Antonio Fumiani.

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Eastern-derived devotion to St. Pantalon, for whom a prestigious place has been reserved in one of the mosaics of St. Mark's Basilica: it is located, next to St. Theodore, in the chapel dedicated to St. Peter, near the presbytery.
Lift your eyes to the ceiling: you will be impressed by the magnificence, majesty and grandeur of the work The Martyrdom of St Pantalon by Giovanni Antonio Fumiani.

Church dedicated to San Pantalon, a dialect word for San Pantaleone di Nicomedia in Bitinia.

Uncertain is the date of construction as well as the original appearance, Pope Alexander III named it for the first time in 1161, thus returning to the core of the oldest parishes in the city. Its consecration, which it received from the bishop of Castello Polo Ramberto in 1305, is instead known. Initially its facade was facing the Moscow river, later it was the architect Comino Francesco who built it in the position in which we find it now.

The church has a single nave wi

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