Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute The Basilica of St. Mary of Health March 2012 trip to Madrid, Venice, Verona, Milan and Paris. Venice: Water taxi, Sestiere di Castello, San Marco in the morning, Murano, Ristorante A Beccafico, Secret Itinerary Tour, Campanile, Cathedral Basilica, Osteria Ae Sconte, Rialto Markets, Jewish Ghetto, San Giorgio Maggiore, Santa Maria della Salute, Gondola Ride Previous Page                                                 Next Page

Statue of Luck on the tower of the Dogana da Mar by Bernardo Falcone indicates the wind direction

The Basilica of St. Mary of Health (Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute)

Thursday continued

Returning to San Marco, we spent about an hour touring the Museo Correr and attached Museo Archeologico Nazionale. They were OK, but not where we wanted to spend much of our last few hours in Venice.

Much as I had loved taking photos of the church of San Giorgio Maggiore in the distance all week, Linda had felt the same way about the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute which is across the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro Sestieri. The baroque church was built by the Republic of Venice in the 1630s in hopes of deliverance from a plague.