San Giovanni Decollato
San Giovanni Decollato—*San Zan Degolà* in the Venetian dialect—names the church of St John the Baptist, whose feast includes the scene of beheading. The building you see follows a Byzantine-Romanesque style and includes a bell tower, tying it to Venice’s medieval blend of Eastern and Western forms. A church stood here in the 11th century, begun by the Venier family in gratitude for a Venetian victory over the Genoese at Negroponte, a campaign in which the family had taken part. In 1213, the Pesaro family restored the church, and later a reconstruction was carried out in 1713. Within the church, early medieval frescoes survive from the original period—one of the few kinds of visual continuity that helps you trace the building’s long life. …
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