CHIESA DI SAN FRANCESCO DELLA VIGNA
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The second largest Franciscan church in Venice with a remarkable campanile, the highest in the city.
" Vigna" in Italian means "vineyard". In fact, vineyards grew here where the Franciscans built this church in 1253. San Francesco delle Vigna was redesigned in 1534 by Jacopo Sansovino, following the advice of the monk Zorzi who based his calculations on the number of the Trinity: 9 steps by 27 for the nave, 3 steps for the side chapels. Andrea Palladio built the façade a few years later. Here you are in the second largest Franciscan church in Venice, all rigor and simplicity, after Santa Maria dei Frari. Its bell tower, visible from afar and one of the highest in the city, is very similar to that of San Marco. Inside, starting the visit from the left, observe the ceiling of the third chapel The Four Evangelists, an early work by Tiepolo, and in the fifth chapel a Madonna and Childby Veronese. The left arm of the transept gives access to the chapel that preserves a Madonna surrounded by saints by Giovanni Bellini, a commission of the doge Andrea Gritti (1523-1538) who lies in the church in a sumptuous funeral monument. The real masterpiece of the church is in the right side of the transept: The Virgin enthroned in adoration before the Child, painted in 1450 by the monk Antonio da Negroponte, on a splendid late Gothic altarpiece. Finally, allow yourself a moment in the cloister paved with funerary slabs, open to the public.
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A ne pas manquer pour son environnement ses cloîtres et ses trésors comme ‘’la vierge entourée des saints ‘’ de Bellini, la façade de Palladio………