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The Oratorio di San Gallo

The 18th-century façade of the Oratorio di San Gallo: portal, two windows and the pedestals never crowned by statues
The 18th-century façade of the Oratorio di San Gallo: portal, two windows and the pedestals never crowned by statues Photo: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

In a corner of Campo San Gallo (a Venetian square, or campo), once Campo Rusolo, one of Venice’s smallest sacred buildings survives among the 20th-century bank buildings. The Oratorio di San Gallo is the last remnant of the Ospizio Orseolo, a shelter for pilgrims travelling to the Holy Land that tradition attributes to Doge Pietro Orseolo I in the 10th century, beside St Mark’s Campanile.

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