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Church of the Angel Raphael (Miss Garnet's Angel)
The Church of Angelo Raffaele is well-known to readers of Miss Garnet's Angel by Salley Vickers. The church is located in Dorsoduro near Santa Marta.
Church of the Madonna dell'Orto
Flanked by the old Scuola dei Mercanti, this monumental church stands on the far northern edge of the Sestiere of Cannaregio in a churchyard that still maintains its original paving of brick laid out in a herring-bone pattern within Istrian stone divisions. Originally built in the 14th century, the structure was heavily modified in the 15th and owes its name to a miraculous statue of the Virgin and Child - now in the San Mauro Chapel - which was found in a nearby garden (orto); in fact, the church is officially dedicated to St. Christopher Martyr.
Church of the Santissimo Redentore
The Church of the Redentore is one of the most famous and venerated churches in Venice, and the centrepiece of one of the city's most deeply felt public celebrations (the Feast of the Redentore, on the third Sunday in July). Commissioned by the Senate to honour a vow taken during the terrible plague of 1575-77, the Church was designed by Andrea Palladio and is one of the absolute masterpiece of Renaissance architecture (it was completed after Palladio's death in 1580 by his foreman Antonio da Ponte, who remained totally faithful to the original designs). A typically Palladian composition of broken pediments and half columns united by a horizontal band, the façade has, from a distance, something of the air of a bas-relief.
Church of the Scalzi - Santa Maria di Nazareth
This is an impressive Longhena church next to the railway station. It is free entry.
Le Eremite
Built in 1693-94 by Giovanni Battista Lambranzini for Augustinian nuns.
Restored in late 90s by Venice in Peril as the church had suffered severely from damp.
Ospedaletto Church and Music Room
The Church of Santa Maria dei Derelitti, known as Ospedaletto, or little hospital, was built in 1575 in an area occupied since 1528 by a hospital for the poor, ill, disabled and orphaned. Probably built following an plan by Palladio, the church was given its facade by Longhena and enriched during the 17th and 18th centuries with works of art given by benefactors of the hospital. There are works by Tiepolo, C. Loth and P. Liberi.
The Ospedaletto was famous for the musical tradition of the choir of the young orphans educated by famous masters.
This musical tradition lives again in the many concerts which are now organised in this space.
Ruskin; The most monstrous example of the Grotesque renaissance which there is in Venice; the sculptures on its façade representing masses of diseased figures and swollen fruit. It is almost worth devoting an hour to the successive examination of five buildings, as illustrative of the last degradation of the Renaissance. San Moise is the most clumsy, Santa Maria Zobenigo the most impious, St. Eustachio the most ridiculous, the Ospedaletto the most monstrous, and the head at Santa Maria Formosa the most foul..
The Ospedaletto was famous for the musical tradition of the choir of the young orphans educated by famous masters.
This musical tradition lives again in the many concerts which are now organised in this space.
Ruskin; The most monstrous example of the Grotesque renaissance which there is in Venice; the sculptures on its façade representing masses of diseased figures and swollen fruit. It is almost worth devoting an hour to the successive examination of five buildings, as illustrative of the last degradation of the Renaissance. San Moise is the most clumsy, Santa Maria Zobenigo the most impious, St. Eustachio the most ridiculous, the Ospedaletto the most monstrous, and the head at Santa Maria Formosa the most foul..
San Simeon Piccolo
This is the church with the huge green dome which greets visitors arriving in Venice by train as it is opposite the railway station. Recently restored. The official website is only in Italian and plays music.
Santa Maria del Carmelo (I Carmini)
Founded by the Carmelite fathers in 1286 and consecrated in 1348. Rebuilt with a new façade facing the canal in the early 16th Century.
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