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San Pietro di Castello Review
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San Pietro di Castello
Religious Sites, Castello
Fodor's Review:
A 7th-century church dedicated to Byzantine saints Sergio and Bacchus was replaced two centuries later with a new church honoring St. Peter the Apostle. Palladio redesigned the facade at the end of the 16th century and added its stark campanile, the first in Venice built from marblelike Istrian stone rather than brick. It stands out against the picturesque, workaday slips along the Canale di San Pietro and the peaceful Renaissance cloister, which for years was a sort of squatters colony. Veneti lived on this island long before Venice was officially founded as a city, but now it's a sleepy, almost forgotten place, with little to suggest that for more than 1,000 years this church was Venice's cathedral -- until the Basilica di San Marco replaced it in 1807. The interior has some minor 17th-century art and San Pietro's ancient cattedra (throne) in the right nave. According to legend, this marble seat, inscribed with verses from the Koran, was used by Peter at Antioch.
INFO
- Address: Campo San Pietro, Castello, Venice
- Phone: 041/2750462 Chorus
- Cost: EUR 2.50, Chorus pass EUR 8
- Open: Mon.-Sat. 10-5, Sun. 1-5
- Metro: San Pietro di Castello/Giardini
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