Places of worship

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.

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 religiou

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 Domenic

The church was built in 1525-28 on a project by Antonio Abbondi, called the Scarpagnino, in the area of ​​the Rialto Market to replace the previous church, built between the 9th and 10th centuries, burned in the terrible fire of 1514.

The first document that mentions the church of San Giovanni Evangelista dates back to 1187, but tradition sets the date of foundation in 970 by the Badoer family.

Its construction date is uncertain, the first is dated around 829 the second, perhaps the most certain, around 1090. Legend has it that the bishop of Oderzo, San Magno, directly received from God the order to build eight he asked and that St.

Little is known about this church, its construction dates back to the mid-fourteenth century thanks to some nuns of the order of Sant'Agostino. It is said that two nuns in S.

Its construction, together with that of the nearby convent later entrusted to the Augustinian nuns, is presumed to have taken place immediately after 1512 on the senatorial decree of the Serenissima.

In the Dorsoduro district, as early as 1224, there was a hospital dedicated to the treatment of lepers named after San Lazzaro and, almost forty years later, to avoid the risk of epidemics, it was moved to an island in the lagoon, changing its nam

You come across Strada Nova - from the train station towards Campo dei Santi Apostoli -, on the right shortly after crossing the Ponte delle Guglie, in the Campo of the same name.

It is said that the church was founded in ancient times between the sixth and seventh centuries while it is known from historical sources that, thanks to the contribution of the patrician Partecipazio family, in the ninth century the convent of Be

The date of construction of the church is still uncertain even if according to the Corner it is to be placed at the end of the 11th century, before 1072; it seems to have been built by the will of the noble Dandolo and Pizzamano families.