Drawing up a list of the most beautiful churches in Venice is a real undertaking: it is not easy to choose among the approximately one hundred and fifty splendid religious buildings that you can find in each district.
The experts of the Engel & Völkers agency, who know every corner of the city, have come up with an ideal list with the ten most beautiful churches. Are you curious to discover them?
Basilica of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari - San Polo
Church of San Rocco - San Polo
You say San Rocco and think of Tintoretto, because the great Venetian painter left the most important testimonies of him here and in the connected Scuola Grande. Probably, among the churches of Venice it is the most beautiful in terms of pictorial decorations.
Church of San Giobbe - Cannaregio
Church of San Polo - San Polo
The building that gives the sestiere its name can boast in its curriculum the l'Ultima Cena e l'Assunta and Santi by Jacopo Tintoretto, the Sposalizio della Vergine by Paolo Veronese and La Vergine appare a San Giovanni Nepomuceno by Giambattista Tiepolo. However, even the oratory, with its Via Crucis, is waiting to be discovered.
Church of San Giacomo di Rialto - San Polo
Church of San Sebastiano - Dorsoduro
This sixteenth-century building, built in the name of sobriety, holds a real treasure: a cycle of paintings by Paolo Veronese who decorated most of the interiors. The Vita di Ester and the Martirio di San Sebastiano are the masterpieces of the artist who was also buried here.
Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli - Cannaregio
Enter this church and immediately turn your gaze upwards. The wooden coffered ceiling with small panels depicting a patriarch or a prophet is a real spectacle as well as the polychrome marbles worked by Pietro Lombardo.
Basilica of San Pietro di Castello - Castle
A corner of Venice that few know and it is a fortune. Because walking in the grass field in front of the main facade is good for the eyes and the heart.
Here are the 10 churches of Venice to discover, from which we have excluded, for obvious reasons, the most famous, the Basilica of San Marco, rightly considered one of the most beautiful in the world. Yet our list could go on and on, because this wonderful city never seems to end. Here on the agency's website you can start exploring it, starting with its homes for sale in Venice. Architectural wonders of all shapes and sizes.
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