The church of Santa Maria degli Angeli is set in a very peculiar location; with the square still covered in grass and the small well in the centre it reminds us of how Venetian campi once were; the word itself, campo, means field and once all over Venice and the surrounding islands, you would have seen farm animals pasture around next to vegetable gardens. In any case, Giacomo Casanova was known to attend mass here regularly, and not because he was a devote Catholic, but because there was once an old convent next to the church, and he had began an affair with one of the nuns there, not altogether shocking for 18th century standards.
