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The adjoining convent dates back to the end of the 13th century by the Carmelite friars while the church was built in 1286 and consecrated in 1348. Towards the end of the 15th century, the place of worship underwent a major renovation which…

The church of S. Maria del Giglio (or Zobenico, or Zobenigo) was built in the 10th century on a commission from the Jubanico family.Of particular importance is its façade, the work of the architect Giuseppe Sardi from Morcote, where we find statues…

The church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was built in the fifteenth century, on a pre-existing building of the eleventh century, and was then remodeled again in the sixteenth century. The façade, divided into three parts by pilasters and…

The church, initially dedicated to Santa Maria di Val Verde, is firmly intertwined with the fate of the Confraternity of Mercy which in the area built a series of infrastructures dedicated to the confreres, from the school to the hospital, from the…

Building which is part of the ecclesiastical complex of Santa Maria della Presentation set up to assist girls without husbands and without dowry because they are poor (hence the nickname "delle Zitelle") who were often forced into prostitution; in…

The religious complex dedicated to the Penitents, consisting of the boarding school and the relative church, was built starting from 1705 with the aim of hosting young girls who had decided to leave prostitution and try to redeem themselves.…

Of very ancient origin (it is assumed around the seventh century), legend has it that one night the Madonna appeared in a dream in "vague form" to the then Bishop of Oderzo San Magno, ordering him to build a temple in a place she indicated.…

In 1483 a group of devoted women asked for permission to build a monastery that would welcome them at Sant'Agnese in Dorsoduro. Not having obtained what they wanted, they were granted the area of ​​the arzeri novi in ​​Sant'Andrea where it is said…

The church was built in the early 14th century on the initiative of Giacomina Scorpioni and with the donations of numerous Venetian patricians including Marco Sanudo Torsello and Filippo Salomon. This economic intervention also allowed the…

The church was founded in the early eleventh century, underwent several renovations during the following centuries up to the last one dating back to the last years of the seventeenth century by Antonio Gaspari. In the nineteenth century the church…

Legend has it that the church was built by the will of the bishop of Oderzo San Magno, to whom the twelve apostles appeared during the prayer and told him to build a church in Venice dedicated to them. In the apparition it was revealed that the…

Seen from the outside, the Magdalena church is immediately striking for its cylindrical shape clad in white marble, crowned by a hemispherical dome. Temanza was explicitly inspired by the Roman Pantheon, even taking up its external steps that give…