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The Island of San Servolo seen from the lagoon (Didier Descouens)

From being a place of meditation and peace, it was transformed into an island of pain, first as a military hospital and then as an asylum. Today, it has been reborn as an island of culture and thought, as well as a historical memory of the hospital past.
It is the only island in the lagoon to have been recovered by a local authority.

The origins and the first settlementsIt 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 929 and in

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