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The church of San Biagio - dedicated to San Biagio bishop and martyr as well as known as San Biagio dei Marinai - is located beyond the Arsenale bridge also known as San Biagio and finds space in the homonymous field renamed Angelo Emo in 1889, in…

The church and its convent dedicated to San Bonaventura were built in the seventeenth century in Cannaregio in the portion of land where the shooting range stood, in the northernmost tip of the sestiere, in front of the area known under the name of…

On the facade of the church you can see a plaque indicating the dates of construction and its renovations. It is among the oldest in the city and dedicated to the brothers of Aquileia Canzio, Canziano and Canzianella martyred during the persecutions…

The church seems to have been built for the first time in the 9th century on the initiative of the patrician families Barozzi, Aldicina and Equilia. It was rebuilt between the 12th and 13th centuries thanks to the Pisani family and a miraculous…

It is said that the origin of the church dedicated to San Felice martire is very ancient, around the 10th century, by the hand of the patrician Gallina family, coming from Jesolo or the Treviso area. The first official public act dates back to 1177…

The area where the church of San Francesco della Vigna is located remained largely uninhabited for a long time and the only activities detected seem to be some warehouses used for timber. The primitive church and monastery of San Francesco were…

At the end of the 13th century the bishop of Castello Bartolomeo Querini deposited a legacy for the construction of a hospital for the elderly; shortly after, an oratory dedicated to San Bartolomeo was erected, although there was already a church…

The church underwent a series of transformations: it was demolished, rebuilt and enlarged for the first time in 1200 at the behest of the Doge Sebastiano Ziani and, subsequently, it was again demolished and rebuilt in the eighteenth century by the…

Founded, presumably, around the IX-X century and according to some it was appealed by the Orio for having been built on that marshy island then reclaimed called Luprio; others think that the name derives from a family, others still believe that the…

The first documents in which the Church of San Giacomo is mentioned date back to 1152, but tradition has it that it was the first building built in the Rialto area - erected the same year as the foundation of Venice - in 421. Sanudo himself writes…

The church owes its construction to two personalities: San Bernardino da Siena (particularly active and present in Venice towards the middle of the 15th century) and the doge Cristoforo Moro (who contributed significantly to the civil and religious…

Erected in the 11th century and completely rebuilt and restructured in the second half of the 15th century on a project by Mauro Codussi who, however, could not see the end of his work as he passed away; the works were completed by his son Domenico…