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La Chiesa di San Zan Degola

The campo and rio of San Zan Degolà from Ponte Bembo: the Byzantine church in the silence of Santa Croce
The campo and rio of San Zan Degolà from Ponte Bembo: the Byzantine church in the silence of Santa Croce Photo: CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

In the silent Campo San Zan Degolà (a campo is a Venetian square), just behind the Fondaco dei Turchi, hides one of the oldest and most intact churches in Venice: San Giovanni Decollato — ’San Zuan di Golao’ in the old documents, later corrupted into ’San Zan Degolà’.

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