The origins and the first settlements
It is assumed that the very first settlements on the island date back to the end of the year 600, when a group of Benedictine monks, driven out of the Franks by their first destroyed monastery of Santo Stefano d'Altino, took refuge in San Servolo and founded a convent there .
In the year 819, the Doges Angelo and Giustiniano Partecipazio granted a group of religious to build the Church of Sant'Ilario, located on the borders of the Venetian Lagoons towards the Paduan territory. In the chronicle of the time, it appears that the church was rebuilt in
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