CHURCH OF SAINTS GIOVANNI E PAOLO - Sestriere of Castello, XIII-XV sec.

Church was dedicated to the Roman martyrs Giovanni and Paolo whom lived in the thirth century, built by Dominican friars between the XIII and the XV century and and consecrated in the 1430.
Facade is composed of bricks and suggeststhe inner division of the church in three naves. In the central part of the facade there's a big eye accompanied, in the lateral sides, by two smaller apertures.
Watching the photo it's possible to get how the inferior part of the building has been raised in a different age compare to the upper part and how it's distinguished by the presence of Gothic blind lancets closing the main entrance, Gothic itself but with some clear Renaissance influences.Those arches are the graves of some heads of the Serenissima (Venice government till the 1797), each giving hospitality to a funeral urn (white in the photo). The difference of materials among the main entrance and the rest of the facade is due to the partial realization of a remake project started in the fifteenth century
Interior has a Latin cross plan composed of three naves and lateral chapels, five huge columns divide the main nave from the side aisles.
Church gives hospitality to many funeral monuments of the Serenissima's heads whom used to be brought here with a funeral cortège going through Venice. One of the most important monuments is the one dedicated to Doge Pietro Mocenigo by Pietro Lombardo describing his virtue during the battles against Turks, so the Doge (Serenissima's leader) is represented armed and his urn held up by warriors.
In the rigth side aisle there's a polittico attributes to Bellini by Longhi in the 1914, after many centuries of discussions among critics. The work is cmposed of many paintings: La Pietà, La Vergine e l'Angelo Annunciante, Episodi della Vita di S. Vincenzo, Predica del Santo, Guarigione dei Paralitici.
In the Addolorata's Chapel the Mausoleo della Famiglia Dogale dei Valier drew by architect Andrea Tirali and realized by Venetian masters in the 1700.