Church of San Vio

Graziosa cappella (sconsacrata)

Ex chiesa ed ex Cappella di San Vio, attualmente sconsacrata e di proprietà privata.

Bellissima la facciata esterna in mattoni, bellissimo il mosaico nel portone. Due stelle perché sempre chiusa.

사실 모르면 그냥 지나칠 수 있는 베네치아의 작은 성당이지만 비발디의 음악이 정통으로 연주되는 세계 6개의 성당중 하나이다. 비발디는 생전에 빛을 많이 보진 못했지만 죽어서 그 음악의 가치가 더욱 빛을 발한 음악가중하나로 특히 사계는 산마르코 성당에서 연주되는 것을 가정하고 작곡하여 비발디의 음악은 성당에서 듣을때 그 진면목이 나온다고 한다. 비발디 팬이라면 꼭 한번 들르길 바란다_

Di notte tutta un’altra musica

Si trova nel quartiere di Dorsoduro. È rasentato dall'omonimo Rio San Vio, che collega il Canale della Giudecca con il Canal Grande. Sul lato del Canal Grande, sorge l'importante Palazzo Barbarigo, mentre dalla parte opposta sorgeva l'antichissima ( probabilmente X secolo) l'antichissima chiesa di San Vio, distrutta nel 1813 e sostituita da una piccola chiesetta ( ora sconsacrata).

Tiny chapel in the middle of nowhere.

Near the Palazzo Cini in a quiet part of the sestiere Dorsoduro is this beautiful little chapel, once the church of San Vio. The building dated back to the earliest times of the city (10th century, founded, according to tradition, by the Magno family), it is in fact mentioned in the map of Temanza, the oldest known map of the city as it is mentioned in the chronicles among the rebuilt churches following the fire of 1015. In the 1500 Venice plan by Jacopo de 'Barbari, the church of San Vio is depicted as a Romanesque building with three naves, flanked by a squat square bell tower with a pyramidal spire. The church was internally decorated with paintings by Matteo Ingoli, Alvise dal Friso, Girolamo Brusaferro and Antonio Zanchi. The blessed Countess Tagliapietra and the painter Rosalba Carriera were buried there, who lived nearby. The further history of the church is extremely interesting and significant for Venice. June 15, the day in which San Vio (Vito in Italian) is celebrated, was a very important day for the Serenissima Republic of Venice ... In fact, the discovery of the conspiracy of Baiamonte Tiepolo was celebrated, a conspiracy organized by some of the most influential families of the city, including the Querini, the Tiepolos and the Badoers, to overthrow the government of the Doge Gradenigo and establish a popular government. The conspiracy was discovered in time and the conspirators were exiled or executed, the house of Baiamonte Tiepolo in Sant 'Agostin was razed to the ground and the marble jambs that decorated the portal were symbolically donated to the church of San Vio, to thank the Saint of the narrow escape. Every year the Doge went in procession to the church of San Vio to commemorate the event; the houses in front of the church, which overlooked the Grand Canal, were demolished to facilitate the docking of the Bucintoro, the Doge's ship. In 1808 the church of San Vio was demolished and a small chapel was built in its place (now deconsecrated and used as a private residence).