The area where the State Police Headquarters is now based was originally one of the numerous islands that made up the Venice of the most ancient periods. According to the memoirs, in the year 1236 this island was given to a certain Constance by Giovanni Badoer - together with his cousins Maria and Lavinia, daughters of Peter - to erect a church and a monastery, a church that originally bore the name of Santa Maria Madre del Signore, whose Franciscan nuns called themselves Sisters of San Damiano for the first Franciscan monastery, under the title founded by Santa Chiara in Assisi. Subseque
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