Next to the station and the bridge over the Grand Canal rises one of the most opulent Baroque churches in Venice: Santa Maria di Nazareth, known as degli Scalzi, from the Discalced (’barefoot’) Carmelite friars who commissioned it. Having arrived in the city in 1633 and owners of this vast area since 1646, the friars began the temple around 1660 to a design by Baldassare Longhena, the great architect of Santa Maria della Salute, with funds from Count Gerolamo Cavazza; the church was completed in 1689 and consecrated in 1705.