Place of worship titled to the martyr of Antioch San Giuliano, who with his wife Basilissa, was tortured in 304 in Alexandria.
The ancient church was erected for the first time in the 9th century and was destroyed and rebuilt several times; the last time this happened in the mid-sixteenth century thanks to the funding of the Ravenna doctor Tommaso Rangone, who obtained from the Serenissima to erect a statue that would represent him in the church. Until then, the Republic banned any type of cult of personality for which the year 1553, during which the church was erected, was a turn
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