Ahead you’ll see the façade of the Church of San Geremia, where you can read an inscription dedicated to Saint Lucy martyr of Siracuse, which was added when the saint’s remains were transferred here after the Church of Saint Lucia was demolished to make way for the train station in the mid 19th century.
Her body arrived in Venice after the looting of Constantinople in 1204, but was stolen in 1476 by a group of nuns, who, however, returned it to Venetian officials immediately, on pain of being walled in alive. In 1981, the Malavita del Brenta, an organised crime group from the mainland, stole the remains but soon restored them on 13 December, the day of Saint Lucia in fact.
Especially noteworthy is the bell-tower with exposed brick built in the 12th century, one of the oldest in Venice.
