CHURCH OF SAN PIETRO A CASTELLO - Sestiere of Castello, IX sec. -

This church was the cathedral of Venice 'till the 1807, when Saint Mark's Basilic became the religious centre of city. San Pietro was rebuilt on a previous building of the seventh century a.C. and dedicated to San Pietro by the bishop Magno. Original building, as appears nowadays, it's the result of a remake, partially completed, based on a project by Palladio.
Interior has a Latin crossed plan, composed of three naves. It keeps paintings of the sixteenth century, a marble crucifix and a Chair that traditions attributes to Saint Peter.
Here, seignory used to come the eight of January to commemorate the end of the pestilence in the 1630. In memory of all the episodes of plague that threw Venice and the entire Europe into confusion, also San Lorenzo implora l'aiuto divino per la liberazione di Venezia dalla peste del 1447 by Antonio Bellucci painted in the end of 1600.