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Former Monastery of Santa Croce alla Giudecca

The Tuscan-style façade of the former church of Santa Croce, at the end of the Fondamenta della Croce courtyard
The Tuscan-style façade of the former church of Santa Croce, at the end of the Fondamenta della Croce courtyard Photo: Wolfgang Moroder, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Along the Fondamenta della Croce (a canalside walkway), at the end of a courtyard among the vegetable gardens, you can glimpse the façade of a church that is no longer a church: it is what remains of Santa Croce, a monastery of Benedictine nuns documented since 1328.

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