San Francesco della Vigna & surroundings
Visit of the church designed by Sansovino & Palladio, viewing its treasures, cloister and garden, walking to a mysterious sotoportego nearby.
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In the nineteenth century, the rear part of the Pallazzo Gritti on Campo della Confraternità passed to the Franciscan friars who united it to its convent by means of a gangway on columns (designed by G.A. Pigazzi), the so-called "cavalcavia".
In the German TV adaptations of Donna Leon's Commissario Brunetti novels, the building is used as the Questura, the police headquarters.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
Visit of the church designed by Sansovino & Palladio, viewing its treasures, cloister and garden, walking to a mysterious sotoportego nearby.