L'isola della GIUDECCA  

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ITINERARY:
Start: Sacca Fisola
Calle Fisola, Calle Larga dei Lavraneri, Ponte dei Lavarneri, Campiello Priuli, Fondamenta delle Convertite, a sinistra Fondamenta rio Sant'Eufemia (da vedere Chiesa di Sant'Eufemia), Fondamenta Sant'Eufemia, Fondamenta del Ponte piccolo, Fondamenta del Ponte grande, Fondamenta San Giacomo Campo del Redentore (da vedere Chiesa del Redentore), Fondamenta della Croce, Fondamenta delle Zitelle (da vedere chiesa delle Zitelle), vaporetto 41-42-82 per Isola San Giorgio Maggiore (da vedere chiesa di San Giorgio Maggiore.
Arrival: San Giorgio Maggiore (stop ACTV ).

INTRODUCTIONZIONE 
The Giudecca, originally called "Longa Thorn" because of its shape to fish thorn, is the island more extensive and at the same time nearest the city of Venice, separated from the wide and deep Channel of the Giudecca, anciently called Vigano Channel. 
According to some the name would derive from the Giudei expression, that is Hebrew, than they dwelled here, while others, instead, make to go back the origin to the name of "Zudegà" (judged), since in the sec. IX the Republic adjudicated i esiliati lands of the island to noble. 
To leave from the ' 500 the island divenne, because of its position put off center to the inside of the River basin of S. Mark, place of leisure with rich residences of garden, gardens, monasteri and I placed to you in order then to accommodate, after the fall of the Most serene one, barracks, jails, factories and quarters laborers. 
The island, formed from 8 smaller islands, is covered from long foundations that we will cover during our route, while the opposite depositor is formed from garden and gardens. In order to discover the differences with the Giudecca neighbor enough to cover some meter. The houses are all of recent construction, the calluses are wide, are pure one swimming pool. In order to currently catch up before the stage of our route al.di.là.del great bridge in wood (bridge of the Lavraneri in restoration), is continued until Campiello Priuli, Foundations of Convertite in order then to turn on the left until arriving to the first long feature of foundations the Channel of the Giudecca. Of forehead the Marine Station and the Rafts.

CHIESA DI SANT'EUFEMIA
The parochial, sacred church to the martyrdoms in Aquileia S. Eufemia, Dorotea, Tecla and Erasma, was constructed in the 865 under the Doge Partecipazio Bear. A lapide grafted near the door it remembers the consacrazione of 1371. The building has conserved original the simple structure to hut (XI century) typical of the Veneto-bizantino style, while the external dorico porch came erected during the rimaneggiamenti of the ' 700-' 800. 
The columns of the porch, going back to XVI the century, belonged to the Church of the SS. Biagio and Cataldo, demolished in order to make space the construction of the Molino Stucky. 
Over the famous door of income a beautiful representing relief the Vergine with the Putto between Saint Rocco and Sant' Eufemia. To the inside the three navate Veneto-bizantine (XI century) are decorated with sontuosi putty and painted (of the ' 700). In navate and to the walls the works of B. Vivarini, G.B. Canal In the 1810 parochial center came transferred from the church of S. Eufemia in that one of the SS. Redentore; in 1822, when the Cappuccini bought back their antichi possedimenti, it came transferred of new to S. Eufemia.

BASILICA DEL REDENTORE
In 1541 it came built up to the Giudecca a church dedicated to Saint Maria of the Angels and a next convent, in which they came received the Cappuccini Friars. Hunted from the convent, in 1546 they of it they founded an other in a various point of the Giudecca in order then to make return, solo two years after, to S. Maria of the Angels. In the summer of 1575 a plague epidemic burst to Venice that in two years provoked the dead women of 50.000 inhabitants. 
The Senate of the Republic made ballot to raise one sontuosa Basilica entitled to the Redentore near the church of S. Maria of the Angels in case the flagellum stopped (to memory exists in controfacciata the lapide with the dogale ballot of 1576). In the May of 1577 it came put down the first stone and in the successive July the end of the pestilenza with a processione was celebrated that reached until the yard of the building under construction. 
The sacred building, designed from Palladium and considered one of its capolavori, was concluded in 1592, after the dead women of the master, from Antonio from Bridge. 
It came destined to the Cappuccini that of it decided planimetry and the choice of the materials (mattoni and cooked also to the inside to exclusion of the facade) and widened the convent. To the inside colonnato turns along the walls of only navata, with three nails head opened on every side, and of the presbiterio, sormontato from one cupola. To the altars they are painted of school veneta of the sec. Xvi-xvii centralizes to you on the topic of the Redenzione: to the skillful wall: Natività, signed work of Francisco Bassano; to the left wall: Deposition of Palm the Young person; Risurrezione di Francisco Bassano; Ascension of Jacopo Tintoretto and aids. 
On the baroque greater altar, Crocifisso between S. Mark and S. Francisco, bronzee statues of Girolamo Campaign (sec. XVI). Particularly interesting the sacrestia, from which it is approached from the chorus, rich of works of art and reliquie of the Franciscan order: Madonna with the Child and Angels of Alvise Vivarini; Madonna and Knows attributed to you to Francisco Bissolo; Baptism of Christ di Paul Veronese. 
It was prescribed under the Republic that in the day of the SS. Redentore (third saturday of the month of July of every year) the tempio to sacred he was visited from the doge and the Lordship. The church came conceived like final station of the solemn processione of the Redentore that crosses the channel over a bridge of boats. still today every the third Sunday of July comes celebrated the Festivity of the Redentore; in such day, Venice to the Giudecca with a bridge of boats joins, celebrates the eve of the festivity with characteristics tavolate along the foundations in order to admire the show pyrotechnician tasting typical plates of the festivity.

LE ZITELLE
After the visit to the Church of the Redentore, we continue the long route the foundations of the Cross, that it takes its name from the cinquecentesca Church of the Cross, you space today used after Houses of detention. 
Some meter still and we find the CHURCH and CONVENT Of the ZITELLE. The church, built up on plan of Andrea Palladium, is part of an intentional ecclesiastical complex from the Jesuit Benedict Palmio in order to assist the poor girls. Already after its arrival to Venice, in 1558, house in the parish of S. Marziale began to ricoverarne several in one. 
To such scope a spazioso building with annexed oratory was planned. The building area came already acquired in 1561, while the jobs of the church began in 1581, subsequently to the Palladium dead women; they came completed in the 1586 from Jacopo Sketch and two years after presentation of M. V. to the Tempio followed the consacrazione of the church alla. The Church of Saint Maria of the Presentation, said also of the Zitelle, ago part today of Monuments of the Veneziana Attendance scattered in the lagoon city, of property of the IRE of Venice - Institutions of Shelter and Education. Visit of the church: opened from May to October the friday and saturday from the 10,00 to the 12.00.

SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE
In order to catch up the island of Saint Greater George it is necessary to take vaporetto line 82 from the imbarcadero of the Zitelle in Saint direction Marco-San Zaccaria. The stopped one of Saint George is just of forehead to the CHURCH OF SAINT GREATER GEORGE the church represents one of the main works of Andrea Palladium, even if the building, begun in 1566, came finished in 1611, abundantly after the dead women of the master. The noble facade has two lateral wings that correspond to the inner navate ones and that they leave to catch a glimpse the two wide apses in mattoni. 
The cupola surpasses the crossing of the solemn inside to three navate with the widest one transetto. In the nail head to right of the presbiterio: Madonna in Curly throne and knows you of Sebastiano (1708). In the presbiterio: to the greater altar, bronzeo group of Girolamo Campaign (1593); to the walls, two works of Tintoretto, Last supper and Collection of manna (1594). 
From the sagrestia it is approached the Nail head of the Dead men where came guarded boneses of the Benedictines collections in the course of the demolition and one presumes that it corresponds to the entrance of the ancient church. The shovel of the altar is of Jacopo Tintoretto, one of the last works of the Master. Snodarsi of the composition in rhythms undulates, seen to you with the vertical perspective flat of the primiti ones to you, acquires a pathetic value here, nearly to express the abandonment of the spirit to the pain. Only the deterioration of the colouring can justify the reservoirs formulated from the critics us on the paternity of this capolavoro. To of over of the nail head the nocturnal chorus of the monaci is constructed, to which scale is approached for one scroll, situated to the beginning of the corridor. 
Its atmosphere celebre, in how much served to the Conclave who elesse, in 1800, Pope Pio WAYS. The stalls carry the names of the relati to you cardinals and, in a display window, the cimeli are found of the Conclave. The altar shovel is a "S.Giorgio that kills dredges" of Capaccio Carrier (knows it it of the Conclave is visitabile upon request). Visit to the church: all day 9,30-13,00 and 14-18.30.
Other monument of the Benedictine part of the island is the Benedictine Abbey of Saint George Greater, demolished and reconstructed very five times before assuming the huge aspect with which today it appears to us, e' be for a millenium great center not only spiritual but cultural remaining until the days ours a monumental complex between the more important to the world for measure and artistic value. 
The bell tower of construction to square cane in tiles with a cuspid sormontata from a rotary Angel, came erected in 1791 on plan of the from Bologna friar Benedict Buratti in substitution of that quattrocentesco collapsed in 1774. As far as the part managed from the Foundation George Cini, host of the convent from 1951, is visitabili only the two chiostri: chiostro of the cypresses and chiostro of the bay ones, while the foresteria restored one has been used after several institutes specializes you for the study of the veneziana civilizations; the palladiano refectory comes hour used like classroom magna. The part more ancient than all cenobio the Saint Greater George has been delivered up from the dormitory and the chiostro of the Buora, with the relative one knows capitolare it. 
We know that in 1443 he found shelter to Saint George Cosimo de' Doctors, esiliato to Venice with all one short of friends and customers, between which celebre architect Michelozzo Michelozzi, that he constructed the Benedictine library, destroyed then in 1616 in order to arrange the chiostro palladiano "of the cypresses". In the vestibolo, attributed to Palladium, one low is found expanded scalea that serves from separation to the refectory that once hour to the Louvre accommodated the huge burlap "the Wedding of Cana". 
In the 1630 Baldassarre Longhena, architect of the Health, rifared the wing of the library and in 1642 he inserted in that one of the apartment of Abbot the monumental one scalone. The halls of Abbot of Saint Greater George received Enrico III king of France, Queen Maria Casimira di Polonia, Giuseppe II, Francisco I, Federico I, emperors of Austria and many others. 
From the serliana window of the great hall dedicated today to Giovanni XXII, in 1800 it gave to its blessing "Devout Urbi ET Orbs" WAYS as soon as proclamato Pope. For the visits to the chiostri warmly the telephone reservation (for the groups without guide is advised is preferibile to call with wide advance payment): Foundation George Cini tel. 0415289900, 041,2710211 telephone exchange. The income is free.