The main entrance of San Giacomo dell'Orio faces the canal rather than the campo. The interior is a fascinating mix of architectural and decorative styles....

The traditional foundation date for this church is that of the city itself: 25 March 421. It has undergone several radical reconstructions since then, the...

Job (Giobbe) has been given saint status by Venice, despite his Old Testament pedigree. The church named after him was built to celebrate the visit in 1463...

By the time the church of San Giorgio was begun in 1539, the Greeks were well established in Venice and held a major stake in the city's scholarly printing...

This unique spot cried out for a masterpiece. Palladio provided it. This was his first complete solo church; it demonstrates how confident he was in his...

This small church by Mauro Codussi is dedicated to St John Chrysostomos, archbishop of Constantinople, and shows a Byzantine influence in its Greek-cross...

The church of Headless Saint John - or San Zan Degolà in Venetian dialect - is a good building to visit if you want a relief from the usual Baroque excesses...

This small Renaissance church - a Greek cross within a square - was founded in the ninth or tenth century but rebuilt after a fire in 1514, probably by...

San Giovanni in Bragora (the meaning of bragora is obscure) is an intimate Gothic structure. The church where composer Antonio Vivaldi was baptised (a copy...

There was no such person as St Marcuola; the name is a local mangling of the over-complicated santi Ermagora e Fortunato, two early martyrs. The church,...

The real joy of this church is its ceiling, with its four luminous paintings (1700-05) by the vivacious colourist Sebastiano Ricci. Two of them depict God...

The Baroque façade of San Moisè has been lambasted by just about everybody as one of Venice's truly ugly pieces of architecture. Inside, an extravagant...

This church (1591-95), usually known as I Tolentini, was designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi. Its unfinished façade has a massive Corinthian portico (1706-14)...

San Nicolò is one of the few Venetian churches to have maintained its 13th-century Veneto-Byzantine structure, despite numerous refurbishments over the...