Chiesa dei Santi Geremia e Lucia
In Chiesa dei Santi Geremia e Lucia, a devotion to Saint Lucy of Syracuse once drew pilgrims. The present church dated to 1753, designed by Carlo Corbellini, with a façade added later in 1861. Its apse faced the Grand Canal, between the Palazzo Labia and the Palazzo Flangini, linking ritual and public life across the water. The site held an earlier church from the 11th century, and in 1206 it was noted as housing the remains of St. Magnus of Oderzo, who had taken refuge there from the Lombards. In the turmoil of the 1849 siege, the building suffered damage from Austrian shelling during the First Italian War of Independence. Even in modern times, it was lightly affected by a minor fire on 27 June 1998. …
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