Chiesa dei SS.Pietro e Paolo

The Hospital of Saints Peter and Paul was an institution based in Venice, in the Castello district. Founded in the twelfth century, it was the oldest of the hospices opened in the city for pilgrims heading to the Holy Land. It was later used as a hospital for the care of the sick. In 1350 the complex was enlarged incorporating some houses left by Francesco Avanzo. In 1368 he obtained the protection of the doge. Other important transformations occurred between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with the restructuring of the church (1736) and the entire hospital (1772). It was suppressed in 1806 during the Napoleonic administration (the patients were transferred to the Incurable). He therefore became a patron saint for vagabond children, later entrusted to the daughters of Mary Help of Christians. After the restoration of the years 1996-1999 the complex, passed to the City of Venice, is used as a cultural center and residence for students. Of the original building there is only a valuable gothic portal overlooking the foundations of San Gioachino: dating back to the fifteenth century, there is carved a Madonna with Child between Saints Peter and Paul. It is also known that the church had three altars, of which the major had an altar piece by Giuseppe Angeli (the Virgin and two apostles). Of the same author were Christ in the garden and Christ portacroce, always in the oratory, and Crocefisso, San Gerolamo Miani and two pilgrims, in the infirmary. All the works have gone missing.

To visit.

Pretty.

Very small but pretty