Santa Maria della Salute
Santa Maria della Salute—known simply as La Salute—is the Roman Catholic church that Venice built as a direct response to the plague. In 1630, an exceptionally severe outbreak struck the city; it was so devastating that the wave of disease killed nearly a third of Venice’s population, with 46,000 deaths in the city and up to 94,000 in the lagoons. After prayers and processions to other plague-associated churches, the Venetian Senate decreed a new vow: on October 22, 1630, it ordered that a church be built and dedicated to Our Lady of Health. Construction began in 1631, in the Baroque style designed by Baldassarre Longhena—who had studied under Vincenzo Scamozzi. …
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