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Overall distance: Approx. 1,8 km
In the northernmost part of the sestiere Castello, only a few minutes from Celestia station, one can still find an authentic and serene Venice, away from the beaten tourist path.
The church and monastery of San Francesco della Vigna was built by Franciscans in the 13th century on land that used to be a vineyard (vigna). Reconstructed in the sixteenth century under direction of Jacopo Sansovino, with modifications by Francesco Zorzi to give the space harmonic proportions according to the principles of the Kabbalah in music, it later received a classical façade designed by Andrea Palladio.