San Barnaba
San Barnaba is a neoclassical Catholic church dedicated to the Apostle Saint Barnabas, and its history shows how often Venice rebuilt itself after disaster. A church on this site was first built in the ninth century, then destroyed by fire in 1105. It was rebuilt in 1350, before being reconstructed in its present form in 1776 by Lorenzo Boschetti, under the patronage of the Grimani family—an imprint of elite influence on the city’s sacred architecture. Even the campanile tells a longer story: the 11th-century bell tower stands detached from the church and rises with a pine-cone shaped spire dating from the 1300s. To the left of the church was the entrance to the Casin dei Nobili, a gambling house active in the 18th century, linking devotion and entertainment in the same urban space. …
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