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The Church Under Your Feet

The large pale slab set into the station forecourt, engraved with the church of Santa Lucia and its two bell towers
The large pale slab set into the station forecourt, engraved with the church of Santa Lucia and its two bell towers Photo: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Every year, 30 million travellers leave Venice’s railway station and cross this forecourt with wheeled suitcases, and almost no one looks down. Yet there’s a whole church beneath their feet.

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