A few steps from Rialto, in the little campo that opens between Strada Nova and San Bortolomio, San Giovanni Crisostomo is a compact jewel of the Venetian Renaissance: founded in 1080 as Santa Cecilia and destroyed in the great fire of 1475 - the same that burnt the house of the Polos in nearby Corte del Milion - it was rebuilt from 1495 to a design by Mauro Codussi, his last work, completed by his son Domenico around 1525; the new dedication came from a rare relic of John Chrysostom, the patriarch of Constantinople called ’golden-mouthed’ for his oratory, which had reached the lagoon from the East.