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The Church of San Trovaso and the Historic Squero

The façade on the leafy campo of San Trovaso, with the well and the cistern mound.
The façade on the leafy campo of San Trovaso, with the well and the cistern mound. Photo: Wolfgang Moroder, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

In a quiet, tree-lined campo (Venetian square) in Dorsoduro stands the church of Saints Gervasius and Protasius, which Venetians have always called San Trovaso: a dialect shortening that fused the two names into one. A church stood here as early as the 11th century.

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