CHURCH
OF SAN GEREMIA -
Sestiere
of Canaregio, XIII sec.
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Church
built in the eleventh century, was rebuilt in the thirteenth century
and consecrated in the 1292 and, of this period conserves the bell-tower
maded with bricks, while the facade is clearly from the nineteenth century.
Interior has a Greek plan - clearly inspired to the model of Salute
Church (sestriere of Dorsoduro) - and was built on the project of architect
Carlo Corbellini; altars keep paintings of the eighteenth century as
La morte di San Giuseppe by Francesco Maggiotto, La Vergine
che assiste all'incoronazione di Venezia by Jacopo Palma il Giovane;
while on the main altar find place two statues - San Pietro and
il Profeta Geremia - sculpted in the 1798 by Torretti (Giovanni
Ferrari).
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