A perfect circle planted in the middle of Cannaregio: the Maddalena is the only Venetian church with a circular plan, together with San Simeon Piccolo — and no coincidence, since its architect Tommaso Temanza was the nephew and pupil of Scalfarotto, who designed the other one. Rebuilt between 1763 and 1790 on the site of a 13th-century church of the Baffo family, which the parish priest Riccardi had renovated one last time in 1701 — to a more restrained design, after the first drawings were rejected as too bulky, and rotated ninety degrees so that the pronaos would face the campo — it was the last church built under the Serenissima: seven years later, the Republic was gone.