Chiesa Dei Scalzi

Lonely Planet review

Virtually next to the train station, this is a rare baroque extravagance. Longhena designed the church, but the façade was done by Giuseppe Sardi. The abundance of columns and statues in niches is a deliberate echo of the particularly extravagant baroque style often employed in Rome. The Carmelites, who had moved here from Rome several years before, specifically requested that it be so. Damaged frescoes by Tiepolo appear in the vaults of two of the side chapels.

The last doge, Ludovico Manin, who presided over the dissolution of the Republic in 1797 before the threat of Napoleon and died in ignominy five years later, is buried here before the main altar on the left.