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Church of San Giacomo di Rialto

San Giacometo: facade with Gothic portico, clock and bell-gable
San Giacometo: facade with Gothic portico, clock and bell-gable Photo: Autore Wikimedia, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

The smallest and oldest church in the commercial heart of Venice: the Venetians call it San Giacometo. Tradition has it consecrated on 25 March 421, the very day of the city’s founding, and tells that four bishops attended together; the documents are more sober - firm citations from the 12th century - but on the facade a plaque records the solemn consecration of 1177.

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