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CHURCH OF SANTA MARIA DEI DERELITTI - Sestiere of Castello, XVI sec. -

Facade has been built on a project by architect Baldassarre Longhena with the funds of a private citizen whom was remembered with a bas-relief placed in the centre of the facade. Many sculptures representing the Virtù and the Telamoni are placed to hold up the capitals of the second order.
This church has a unic nave and internally keeps many paintings of artists who worked in Venice from the end of seventeenth and the beginning of eighteenth century: Andrea Celesti, Nicola Grassi, Gian Battista Tiepolo who signed the Sacrificio di Abramo.

 

Points of interest to visit

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Querini Foundation:
painting collection

Ducale Museum:
S. Mark Square & Basilica


Restaurant Al Giardinetto
seafood restaurant with ancient courtyard


Correr Museum:
dedcated to Venice history

 

 

 

 

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