Places of worship

The church was built towards the middle of the 11th century and dedicated to Sant'Apollinare, vulgo S. Aponal, thanks to donations from the Rampan (or Rampani) and Scievola (or Sievoli) families of Ravenna.

The building - dedicated to the four virgins of Aquileia: Eufemia, Dorotea, Tecla and Erasma made martyrs by the Roman emperor Nero - represents the oldest building in Giudecca and one of the oldest in Venice.

The first monumental complex, consisting of a hospital and a church, seems to have been erected in the 8th century while the current building, connected with the adjacent female monastery, which does not exist today, was founded in 1291.

The church of Santa Croce overlooked the Grand Canal while the apse overlooked the Rio dei Tolentini.

The Armenian people were only one of the strains of population that settled in Venice: in fact, the Greeks, Turks, Syrians, Jews, Germans, etc. were also added to it.

Its realization derives from the cult of the homonymous saint whose body, in the 10th century, was transported to the island of Torcello; this, according to tradition, seems to be the origins of the building but there is certain information only r

The church and the adjoining monastery were built starting in 1188, the year in which the noble Ginevra Gradenigo donated land with "adjacent waters" to the Abadessa Giacomina Boncio to make it a place of worship; Ginevra was forced by her father,

Nicolò di Pietro, commissioned by the Tuscan merchant Francesco Amadi, created, in 1408, an image of the "Virgin and Child between two Saints" and its owner decided to place this work outside his home.

The imposing religious place dedicated to the Servants of Mary, still visible today only minimally, shows its majesty in two of the very few images that have come down to us: a particular View of the Church of RR. PP.

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.

The church of S. Maria del Giglio (or Zobenico, or Zobenigo) was built in the 10th century on commission of the Jubanico family.

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.