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Best temples in Venice

10 places from 16 Venice travel vlogs, most-mentioned first. The play button jumps to that moment in the video.

10 places

  1. St. Mark's Basilica

    Temple ยท San Marco

    Venice's greatest church, a treasure house of holy relics from the body of St. Mark to a lock of the Virgin Mary's hair.

  2. Santa Maria della Salute

    Temple ยท Dorsoduro

    Domed church near the mouth of the Grand Canal, built in thanks to the Virgin Mary after a 17th-century plague lifted.

  3. San Giorgio Maggiore

    Temple ยท San Giorgio Maggiore

    An island church whose bell tower is a striking landmark, facing St. Mark's Square across the water.

  4. San Zaccaria Church

    Temple ยท Castello

    Church near St. Mark's Square whose crypt holds the tombs of many Doges and is permanently flooded by canal water.

  5. Madonna dell'Orto

    Temple ยท Cannaregio

    Gothic church founded in 1350 that holds 10 large Tintoretto paintings and the painter's tomb.

  6. Santa Fosca

    Temple ยท Torcello

    11thโ€“12th-century Greek-cross church surrounded by a semi-octagonal portico.

  7. Church of Santa Maria e San Donato

    Temple ยท Murano

    Veneto-Byzantine church rebuilt in 1125โ€“1140, known for its colourful 12th-century floor mosaics.

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3 more picks, each from a single vlog, so not ranked.

  1. San Francesco della Vigna

    Temple ยท Castello

    Church with an adjacent monastery built on a former vineyard.

  2. Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari

    Temple ยท San Polo

    Venice's great Franciscan church, home to Titian's Assumption of the Virgin, a Donatello statue of St. John the Baptist and a Bellini masterpiece.

  3. Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta (Torcello)

    Temple ยท Torcello

    Founded in 639, the lagoon's oldest Byzantine basilica, with its earliest surviving mosaics, including a vast Last Judgment.