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''This page is an overview of all the convents in Venice. For a typical convent, see [[Convent]].''
''This page is an overview of all the convents in Venice. For a typical convent, see [[Convent]] or the Wikipedia page [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convent Convent].''


Convents, or "conventi" in Italian, often accompanied the churches located on the islands of the lagoon.  There are 59 convents on located in Venice, excluding the islands of the lagoon.  Only eight of these convents still actively house monastic orders.  Today, many of these convents have been secularized and reused as less individuals are joining monastic orders.  Among the reused convents include both the [[Convent of the Frari]] and the [[Convent of Saint Giovanni e Paolo]] (both pictured below), which once housed the largest monastic orders in Venice, the Franciscans and Dominicans.   
Convents, or ''conventi'' in Italian, often accompanied the churches located on the islands of the lagoon.  There are 59 known convents located in Venice, which can be seen in the map to the right.  Only eight of these convents still actively house monastic orders.  Today, 51 of these convents have been secularized and reused, leaving only 8 convents as practicing monastic orders.   


==History==
==History==
[[File:GIOV.JPG|thumb|left|The [[Former Convent of Santi Giovanni e Paolo]]]]
As the city of Venice expanded and developed, the size of the convents also increased.  As staples in the community, providing care for the sick and a gathering place for citizens, affluent families were apt to send their children to live in monastic orders.  However, civilians began to abuse the religious system, primarily sending daughters to join nunneries to avoid paying a dowry to a prospective husband and his family.  Although this provided an influx of nuns, this population did not consist of individuals who would regularly be admitted to the nunneries, which reflected poorly on the churches and monastic orders.  In response to this misuse of convents, in 1810, Napoleon demolished 6 convents in Venice and reused others as army barracks and prisons.  Although drastic, the invasion of convents helped return respect and power to the convents, replacing irresponsible unfit nuns, with devout ones. 


==Adaptive Reuse==
==Adaptive Reuse==
[[File:reuse_chart.jpg|thumb|small|The Adaptive Reuse of Convents]] [[File:FRAR.JPG|thumb|right|The [[Former Convent of the Frari]]]]Due to the population shift and decline in religious importance within Venice many convents have been renovated and reused for other purposes to accommodate the needs of the city.  As the city adapts to host more tourists, most of the convents in Venice have been renovated to be used as buildings such as hotels, museums and government buildings, and schools among many other uses.  Only 14% of convents in Venice are actually still used convents, which can be seen in the chart to the right.  This chart displays the adaptive reuse of the 59 known convents in Venice.
The simple layout of convents makes reuse and renovation fairly easy.  Convents generally have fairly large and open rooms on the first floor with much smaller and larger quantity of rooms on the upper levels.  This arrangement is ideal for modern uses of buildings such as hospitals, museums, and prisons.  The structural conversion of these rooms is fairly simple, however it is more difficult to update utilities such as electricity and plumbing while still maintaining the historic and cultural integrity of the building.
Even the largest convents in the city have been renovated for other purposes.  The [[Former Convent of Santi Giovanni e Paolo]], which once housed the Dominican order, is now used as the main hospital in Venice, located in Cannaregio.  The convent can be seen in the picture above.  Furthermore, the [[Convent of the Frari]] (pictured to the right) is now used the state archive, replacing the former Franciscan order.


==Map==
==Map==
This map shows the location of all the convents of Venice.
This map shows the location of all the convents of Venice.
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45.265582,12.300881|[[Church of Ognissanti di Pellestrina]]
45.4473,12.32965|[[Former Convent of San Alvise]]
45.27445,12.301168|[[Church of Santi Vito e Modesto in Pellestrina]]
45.43242,12.35817|[[Former Convent of Santa Anna]]
45.282621,12.302482|[[Church of San Antonio]]
45.43462,12.34094|[[Convent of Santa Apollonia]]
45.432203,12.311178|[[Church of Santa Marta]]
45.44277,12.33904|[[Former Convent of Gesuiti]]
45.42692,12.314087|[[Church of San Gerardo]]
45.43361,12.34844|[[Former Convent of the Ca' di Dio]]
45.432596,12.315829|[[Church of San Nicolo dei Mendicoli]]
45.43109,12.32811|[[Former Convent of Santa Maria della Carita]]
45.317496,12.315974|[[Church of San Pietro]]
45.43319,12.32181|[[Former Convent of Santa Maria del Carmine]]
45.438393,12.316176|[[Church of La Zirada]]
45.4376,12.34987|[[Former Convent della Celestia]]
45.433282,12.316219|[[Church of Le Teresa]]
45.44055,12.31681|[[Former Convent of Santa Chiara]]
45.439357,12.316498|[[Church of Nome di Gesu]]
45.42587,12.3213|[[Former Convent di Convertite]]
45.435149,12.316842|[[Church of Santa Maria Maggiore]]
45.42538,12.32341|[[Former Convent of Santa Cosmo]]
45.432563,12.318999|[[Church of L'Anzolo Rafael]]
45.42749,12.36559|[[Convent of Sant Elena]]
45.447246,12.319101|[[Church of Le Penitenti]]
45.43681,12.33816|[[Former Convent de la Fava]]
45.431996,12.320083|[[Church of San Sebastiano]]
45.43734,12.32593|[[Former Convent of the Frari]]
45.4453,12.320104|[[Church of San Giobbe]]
45.43278,12.33286|[[Former Convent of Santa Maria del Giglio]]
45.426013,12.321727|[[Church of San Convertite]]
45.44484,12.32032|[[Former Convent of Santa Giobbe]]
45.437806,12.321831|[[Church of Tolentini]]
45.44027,12.34207|[[Former Convent of Santi Giovanni e Paolo]]
45.441437,12.322011|[[Church of Gli Scalzi]]
45.44042,12.34233|[[Former Convent of San Girolamo]]
45.433754,12.322091|[[Church of Carmini]]
45.44582,12.32515|[[Convent of Santa Giustina]]
45.425716,12.323046|[[Church of San Cosmo]]
45.43093,12.33397|[[Former Convent of San Gregorio]]
45.43139,12.323435|[[Church of Ognisanti]]
45.43045,12.35774|[[Former Convent of Sant'Isepo]]
45.426919,12.323616|[[Church of Sant'Eufemia]]
45.42454,12.33513|[[Former Convent delle Croce]]
45.447246,12.323993|[[Church of Le Cappuccine]]
45.43425,12.34601|[[Former Convent della Pieta Santa Maria della Visitazione]]
45.435309,12.324047|[[Church of Santa Margherita]]
45.43784,12.34377|[[Former Convent of San Giovanni in Laterno]]
45.440825,12.324395|[[Church of San Simeon Grando]]
45.44706,12.31949|[[Former Convent of Santa Maria delle Penitenti]]
45.440863,12.324416|[[Church of San Simeon Piccolo]]
45.43684,12.3455|[[Former Convent of San Lorenzo]]
45.432053,12.324449|[[Church of Le Romite]]
45.43543,12.31747|[[Former Convent of Santa Maria Maggiore]]
45.435999,12.32449|[[Church of San Pantalon]]
45.43666,12.34607|[[Former Convent of San Giovanni in Malta]]
45.446794,12.325023|[[Church of San Girolomo]]
45.42642,12.36267|[[Former Convent delle Suore Mantellate]]
45.442725,12.325268|[[Church of San Geremia]]
45.43346,12.33175|[[Convent of San Maurizio]]
45.433209,12.325297|[[Church of San Barnaba]]
45.44167,12.34275|[[Former Convent di Mendicanti]]
45.436997,12.325308|[[Church of San Rocco]]
45.42989,12.3339|[[Former Convent di Catecumeni]]
45.445719,12.325753|[[Suore Dorotee]]
45.43927,12.33938|[[Former Convent of Santa Maria dei Miracoli]]
45.430902,12.325918|[[Church of San Trovaso]]
45.43582,12.34884|[[Former Convent of the Muneghette]]
45.438214,12.326034|[[Church of San Giovanni Evangelista]]
45.43181,12.3233|[[Former Convent of Ognisanti]]
45.429743,12.326594|[[Church of Santa Maria della Visitazione]]
45.44641,12.33281|[[Former Convent of Madonna dell'Orto]]
45.437114,12.326665|[[Church of Frari]]
45.43292,12.35437|[[Former Convent of F. da Paula]]
45.443994,12.32674|[[Church of San Leonardo]]
45.43943,12.34537|[[Former Convent of Santa Maria del Pianto]]
45.447935,12.326754|[[Church of San Bonaventura]]
45.43426,12.35961|[[Former Convent of San Pietro]]
45.429404,12.327164|[[Church of Gesuati]]
45.42444,12.33267|[[Convent of the Redentore]]
45.440306,12.327367|[[Church of San Giacomo dell'Orio]]
45.44367,12.33691|[[Former Convent of Santa Caterina]]
45.43596,12.327752|[[Church of San Tommaso]]
45.43198,12.32418|[[Former Convent of the Eremitane]]
45.441751,12.327774|[[Church of San Zandegola]]
45.43201,12.32425|[[Former Convent of the Gesuati]]
45.429983,12.328113|[[Church of Sant'Agnese]]
45.43063,12.33538|[[Former Seminary di Salute]]
45.433627,12.328299|[[Church of San Samuele]]
45.43641,12.33637|[[Former Convent of San Salvador]]
45.431407,12.328583|[[Church of La Carità]]
45.44187,12.32181|[[Former Convent of Santa Maria di Nazareth di Scalzi]]
45.443226,12.328588|[[Church of San Marcuola]]
45.43183,12.32025|[[Former Convent of San Sebastiano]]
45.448149,12.329014|[[Church of Sant'Alvise]]
45.42898,12.34238|[[Convent of San Giorgio Maggiore]]
45.432436,12.329398|[[Church of S. Vidal]]
45.4289,12.33046|[[Former Convent of Spirito Santo]]
45.43721,12.329532|[[Church of San Polo]]
45.43381,12.33159|[[Former Convent of San Stefano]]
45.430722,12.330103|[[Church of Santi Vito e Modesto]]
45.43515,12.3403|[[Former Convent of San Teodoro]]
45.430827,12.330345|[[Church of St. George]]
45.43336,12.31604|[[Former Convent of Santa Teresa]]
45.440238,12.330371|[[Church of Maria Mater Domini]]
45.43786,12.3228|[[Former Convent of San Nicola di Tolentino]]
45.441525,12.330671|[[Church of San Stae]]
45.42538,12.33064|[[Former Convent of SS. Trinita]]
45.425518,12.330747|[[Church of San Trinità]]
45.43861,12.34815|[[Former Convent of San Francesco de la Vigna]]
45.444103,12.330882|[[Church of Servi]]
45.42954,12.32687|[[Convent of Santa Maria della Visitazione]]
45.43372,12.331042|[[Church of San Stefano]]
45.42765,12.34088|[[Convent of Giovanni Batista]]
45.443204,12.331122|[[Church of La Maddalena]]
45.43436,12.34369|[[Convent of San Zaccaria]]
45.433087,12.33157|[[Church of San Maurizio]]
45.42679,12.33922|[[Former Convent of Santa Maria della Presentazione]]
45.428644,12.331729|[[Church of Spirito Santo]]
45.43427,12.331866|[[Oratorio dell'Annunciata]]
45.439702,12.332063|[[Church of San Cassian]]
45.443051,12.33218|[[Church of Santa Fosca in Cannaregio]]
45.425212,12.332451|[[Church of Redentore]]
45.435834,12.332463|[[Church of San Benedetto]]
45.437964,12.332507|[[Church of Sant'Aponal]]
45.446591,12.332526|[[Church of La Madonna dell'Orto]]
45.43274,12.332753|[[Church of Santa Maria Zobenigo]]
45.44388,12.33288|[[Church of San Marziale]]
45.441723,12.333379|[[Church of San Felice]]
45.437553,12.333396|[[Church of San Silvestro]]
45.435839,12.333649|[[Church of San Luca]]
45.43079,12.33369|[[Church of San Gregorio]]
45.430179,12.334035|[[Church of Catecumeni]]
45.433989,12.334094|[[Church of San Fantin]]
45.438711,12.334383|[[Church of San Giovanni Elemosinario]]
45.43102,12.334754|[[Church of La Salute]]
45.441087,12.335001|[[Church of Santa Sofia]]
45.424921,12.33516|[[Church of La Croce]]
45.443966,12.335173|[[Church of La Misericordia]]
45.438598,12.33531|[[Church of San Giacometo di Rialto]]
45.433134,12.336048|[[Church of San Moisè]]
45.437731,12.336229|[[Church of San Bartolomeo]]
45.440265,12.336308|[[Evangelical Lutheran Church]]
45.443408,12.336375|[[Church of Santa Caterina]]
45.43688,12.336506|[[Church of San Salvador]]
45.434727,12.336829|[[Church of San Gallo]]
45.439155,12.337227|[[Church of San Giovanni Grisostomo]]
45.371726,12.337764|[[Church of Santa Maria dell'Assunzione]]
45.435638,12.33772|[[Church of Santa Croce degli Armeni]]
45.437064,12.338003|[[Church of La Fava]]
45.437617,12.33846|[[Church of San Lio]]
45.440161,12.338539|[[Church of San Canciano]]
45.435956,12.338582|[[Church of San Zulian]]
45.427108,12.339125|[[Church of Le Zitelle]]
45.439566,12.339194|[[Church of Miracoli]]
45.443633,12.339254|[[Church of Gesuiti]]
45.435141,12.339329|[[Church of San Basso]]
45.434644,12.339458|[[Basilica of San Marco (Church)]]
45.434984,12.340259|[[Church of San Teodoro]]
45.437162,12.341047|[[Church of Santa Maria Formosa]]
45.435737,12.341462|[[Church of San Zaninovo]]
45.43959,12.34153|[[Church of San Zanipolo]]
45.4414,12.342468|[[Church of Mendicanti]]
45.429642,12.342646|[[Church of San Giorgio]]
45.438842,12.342818|[[Church of L'Ospedalletto]]
45.434724,12.343557|[[Church of San Zaccaria]]
45.435571,12.344636|[[Church of Greci]]
45.434311,12.344963|[[Church of La Pietà]]
45.440155,12.345403|[[Church of Santa Maria del Pianto]]
45.437492,12.345451|[[Church of San Lorenzo]]
45.43621,12.345968|[[Church of San Giorgio degli Schiavoni]]
45.438268,12.345993|[[Church of Santa Giustina]]
45.436643,12.346229|[[Church of San Giovanni di Malta]]
45.43569,12.346412|[[Church of San Antonin]]
45.434455,12.346797|[[Church of La Bragora]]
45.449286,12.346882|[[Church of San Michele]]
45.438457,12.347661|[[Church of La Vigna]]
45.458683,12.348777|[[Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli]]
45.434662,12.348949|[[Church of San Martino]]
45.433755,12.348971|[[Church of Ca' di Dio]]
45.432676,12.349989|[[Church of San Biagio]]
45.45502,12.352626|[[Church of San Pietro Martire]]
45.432958,12.354037|[[Church of San Francesco di Paula]]
45.432767,12.356446|[[Church of San Gioacchino]]
45.430633,12.357167|[[Church of San Giuseppe]]
45.457527,12.357232|[[Church of San Donato]]
45.432676,12.358138|[[Church of Sant'Anna]]
45.434805,12.359779|[[Church of San Pietro di Castello]]
45.403661,12.361806|[[Church of San Antonio]]
45.426414,12.362834|[[Suore Mantellate]]
45.427108,12.365374|[[Church of Sant'Elena]]
45.417266,12.368855|[[Church of Santa Maria Elisabetta]]
45.442332,12.377429|[[Church of Sant'Erosia]]
45.427877,12.380692|[[Church of San Nicolò]]
45.484041,12.405809|[[Church of Santa Caterina]]
45.459179,12.410323|[[Church of Sant'Erasmo]]
45.498368,12.418744|[[Church of Santa Fosca in Torcello]]
45.484688,12.41875|[[Church of San Martino]]
45.498594,12.41912|[[Church of Santa Maria Assunta]]
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==See Also==
{{Navbox
|name = Venetian Convents navbox
|title = Convents of Venice
|group1 = Cannaregio
|list1 = [[Former Convent of San Alvise | Former Convent of San Alvise]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of Gesuiti | Former Convent of Gesuiti]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of Santa Giobbe | Former Convent of Santa Giobbe]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of San Girolamo | Former Convent of San Girolamo]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of Santa Maria delle Penitenti | Former Convent of Santa Maria delle Penitenti]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of Santa Maria dei Miracoli | Former Convent of Santa Maria dei Miracoli]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of Madonna dell'Orto | Former Convent of Madonna dell’Orto]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of Santa Caterina | Former Convent of Santa Caterina]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of Santa Maria di Nazareth di Scalzi | Former Convent of Santa Maria di Nazareth di Scalzi]]
|group2 = Castello
|list2 = [[Former Convent of Santa Anna | Former Convent of Santa Anna]]{{w}}[[Convent of Santa Apollonia | Convent of Santa Apollonia]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of the Ca' di Dio | Former Convent of the Ca' di Dio]]{{w}}[[Former Convent della Celestia | Former Convent della Celestia]]{{w}}[[Convent of Sant Elena | Convent of Sant Elena]]{{w}}[[Former Convent de la Fava | Former Convent de la Fava]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of Santi Giovanni e Paolo | Former Convent of Santi Giovanni e Paolo]]{{w}}[[Convent of Santa Giustina | Convent of Santa Giustina]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of Sant'Isepo | Former Convent of Sant'Isepo]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of Pieta Santa Maria della Visitazione | Former Convent of Pieta Santa Maria della Visitazione]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of San Giovanni in Laterno | Former Convent of San Giovanni in Laterno]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of San Lorenzo | Former Convent of San Lorenzo]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of San Giovanni in Malta | Former Convent of San Giovanni in Malta]]{{w}}[[Former Convent delle Suore Mantellate | Former Convent delle Suore Mantellate]]{{w}}[[Former Convent di Mendicanti | Former Convent di Mendicanti]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of F. da Paula | Former Convent of F. da Paula]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of Santa Maria del Pianto | Former Convent of Santa Maria del Pianto]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of the Muneghette | Former Convent of the Muneghette]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of San Pietro | Former Convent of San Pietro]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of San Francesco de la Vigna | Former Convent of San Francesco de la Vigna]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of San Zaccaria | Former Convent of San Zaccaria]]
|group3 = Dorsoduro
|list3 = [[Former Convent of Santa Maria della Carita | Former Convent of Santa Maria della Carita]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of Santa Maria del Carmine | Former Convent of Santa Maria del Carmine]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of San Gregorio | Former Convent of San Gregorio]]{{w}}[[Former Convent di Catecumeni | Former Convent di Catecumeni]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of the Eremitane | Former Convent of the Eremitane]]{{w}}[[Former Seminary di Salute | Former Seminary di Salute]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of San Sebastiano | Former Convent of San Sebastiano]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of Spirito Santo | Former Convent of Spirito Santo]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of Santa Teresa | Former Convent of Santa Teresa]]{{w}}[[Convent of Santa Maria della Visitazione | Convent of Santa Maria della Visitazione]]
|group4 = Giudecca
|list4 = [[Former Convent di Convertite | Former Convent di Convertite]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of Santa Cosmo | Former Convent of Santa Cosmo]]{{w}}[[ Former Convent della Croce | Former Convent della Croce]]{{w}}[[Convent of the Redentore | Convent of Redentore]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of SS. Trinita | Former Convent of SS. Trinita]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of San Giovanni Batista | Former Convent of San Giovanni Batista]]
|group5 = San Marco
|list5 = [[Former Convent of San Salvador | Former Convent of San Salvador]]{{w}}[[Convent of San Maurizio | Convent of San Maurizio]]{{w}}[[Convent of San Giorgio Maggiore | Convent of San Giorgio Maggiore]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of San Stefano | Former Convent of San Stefano]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of San Teodoro | Former Convent of San Teodoro]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of Santa Maria del Giglio | Former Convent of Santa Maria del Giglio]]
|group6 = San Polo
|list6 = [[Former Convent of the Frari | Former Convent of the Frari]]
|group7 = Santa Croce
|list7 = [[Former Convent of Santa Chiara | Former Convent of Santa Chiara]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of Santa Maria Maggiore | Former Convent of Santa Maggiore]]{{w}}[[Former Convent of San Nicola di Tolentino | Former Convent of San Nicola di Tolentino]]
}}
==References==
Hoey, Kahan, Marchetti, Mazza. 2003. ''Convents, Churches and Palaces: Transformation of Historic Buildings and the Impact of Venices Neighborhoods''
Howard, D., and S. Quill. 2002. The Architectural History of Venice: Yale University Press.

Latest revision as of 19:29, 12 January 2014

Convents
Location of all convents in the city of Venice (excluding the Lagoon Islands)
Convents of Venice
Total Number of Convents 59
Total Number in Cannaregio 9
Total Number in Castello 19
Total Number in Dorsoduro 13
Total Number in Giudecca 6
Total Number in San Marco 6
Total Number in San Polo 1
Total Number in Santa Croce 3
Active Convents 8
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This page is an overview of all the convents in Venice. For a typical convent, see Convent or the Wikipedia page Convent.

Convents, or conventi in Italian, often accompanied the churches located on the islands of the lagoon. There are 59 known convents located in Venice, which can be seen in the map to the right. Only eight of these convents still actively house monastic orders. Today, 51 of these convents have been secularized and reused, leaving only 8 convents as practicing monastic orders.

History

The Former Convent of Santi Giovanni e Paolo

As the city of Venice expanded and developed, the size of the convents also increased. As staples in the community, providing care for the sick and a gathering place for citizens, affluent families were apt to send their children to live in monastic orders. However, civilians began to abuse the religious system, primarily sending daughters to join nunneries to avoid paying a dowry to a prospective husband and his family. Although this provided an influx of nuns, this population did not consist of individuals who would regularly be admitted to the nunneries, which reflected poorly on the churches and monastic orders. In response to this misuse of convents, in 1810, Napoleon demolished 6 convents in Venice and reused others as army barracks and prisons. Although drastic, the invasion of convents helped return respect and power to the convents, replacing irresponsible unfit nuns, with devout ones.

Adaptive Reuse

The Adaptive Reuse of Convents
The Former Convent of the Frari

Due to the population shift and decline in religious importance within Venice many convents have been renovated and reused for other purposes to accommodate the needs of the city. As the city adapts to host more tourists, most of the convents in Venice have been renovated to be used as buildings such as hotels, museums and government buildings, and schools among many other uses. Only 14% of convents in Venice are actually still used convents, which can be seen in the chart to the right. This chart displays the adaptive reuse of the 59 known convents in Venice.

The simple layout of convents makes reuse and renovation fairly easy. Convents generally have fairly large and open rooms on the first floor with much smaller and larger quantity of rooms on the upper levels. This arrangement is ideal for modern uses of buildings such as hospitals, museums, and prisons. The structural conversion of these rooms is fairly simple, however it is more difficult to update utilities such as electricity and plumbing while still maintaining the historic and cultural integrity of the building.

Even the largest convents in the city have been renovated for other purposes. The Former Convent of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, which once housed the Dominican order, is now used as the main hospital in Venice, located in Cannaregio. The convent can be seen in the picture above. Furthermore, the Convent of the Frari (pictured to the right) is now used the state archive, replacing the former Franciscan order.

Map

This map shows the location of all the convents of Venice. <display_map height=600 zoom=14 centre=45.440155,12.345403> 45.4473,12.32965|Former Convent of San Alvise 45.43242,12.35817|Former Convent of Santa Anna 45.43462,12.34094|Convent of Santa Apollonia 45.44277,12.33904|Former Convent of Gesuiti 45.43361,12.34844|Former Convent of the Ca' di Dio 45.43109,12.32811|Former Convent of Santa Maria della Carita 45.43319,12.32181|Former Convent of Santa Maria del Carmine 45.4376,12.34987|Former Convent della Celestia 45.44055,12.31681|Former Convent of Santa Chiara 45.42587,12.3213|Former Convent di Convertite 45.42538,12.32341|Former Convent of Santa Cosmo 45.42749,12.36559|Convent of Sant Elena 45.43681,12.33816|Former Convent de la Fava 45.43734,12.32593|Former Convent of the Frari 45.43278,12.33286|Former Convent of Santa Maria del Giglio 45.44484,12.32032|Former Convent of Santa Giobbe 45.44027,12.34207|Former Convent of Santi Giovanni e Paolo 45.44042,12.34233|Former Convent of San Girolamo 45.44582,12.32515|Convent of Santa Giustina 45.43093,12.33397|Former Convent of San Gregorio 45.43045,12.35774|Former Convent of Sant'Isepo 45.42454,12.33513|Former Convent delle Croce 45.43425,12.34601|Former Convent della Pieta Santa Maria della Visitazione 45.43784,12.34377|Former Convent of San Giovanni in Laterno 45.44706,12.31949|Former Convent of Santa Maria delle Penitenti 45.43684,12.3455|Former Convent of San Lorenzo 45.43543,12.31747|Former Convent of Santa Maria Maggiore 45.43666,12.34607|Former Convent of San Giovanni in Malta 45.42642,12.36267|Former Convent delle Suore Mantellate 45.43346,12.33175|Convent of San Maurizio 45.44167,12.34275|Former Convent di Mendicanti 45.42989,12.3339|Former Convent di Catecumeni 45.43927,12.33938|Former Convent of Santa Maria dei Miracoli 45.43582,12.34884|Former Convent of the Muneghette 45.43181,12.3233|Former Convent of Ognisanti 45.44641,12.33281|Former Convent of Madonna dell'Orto 45.43292,12.35437|Former Convent of F. da Paula 45.43943,12.34537|Former Convent of Santa Maria del Pianto 45.43426,12.35961|Former Convent of San Pietro 45.42444,12.33267|Convent of the Redentore 45.44367,12.33691|Former Convent of Santa Caterina 45.43198,12.32418|Former Convent of the Eremitane 45.43201,12.32425|Former Convent of the Gesuati 45.43063,12.33538|Former Seminary di Salute 45.43641,12.33637|Former Convent of San Salvador 45.44187,12.32181|Former Convent of Santa Maria di Nazareth di Scalzi 45.43183,12.32025|Former Convent of San Sebastiano 45.42898,12.34238|Convent of San Giorgio Maggiore 45.4289,12.33046|Former Convent of Spirito Santo 45.43381,12.33159|Former Convent of San Stefano 45.43515,12.3403|Former Convent of San Teodoro 45.43336,12.31604|Former Convent of Santa Teresa 45.43786,12.3228|Former Convent of San Nicola di Tolentino 45.42538,12.33064|Former Convent of SS. Trinita 45.43861,12.34815|Former Convent of San Francesco de la Vigna 45.42954,12.32687|Convent of Santa Maria della Visitazione 45.42765,12.34088|Convent of Giovanni Batista 45.43436,12.34369|Convent of San Zaccaria 45.42679,12.33922|Former Convent of Santa Maria della Presentazione </display_map>

See Also

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Convents of Venice
Cannaregio
Castello
Dorsoduro
Giudecca
San Marco
San Polo
Santa Croce

References

Hoey, Kahan, Marchetti, Mazza. 2003. Convents, Churches and Palaces: Transformation of Historic Buildings and the Impact of Venices Neighborhoods Howard, D., and S. Quill. 2002. The Architectural History of Venice: Yale University Press.

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