The church of Sant'Alvise, dedicated to St. Louis of Toulouse, known in Venice as St. Alvise, was built in 1383 by the noblewoman Antonia Venier, together with the adjoining monastery, in the place suggested to her by the Saint himself appearing to her in a dream. The church underwent a major renovation in the 17th century, which greatly modified the interior.
The Scuola Grande Tedesca was built in 1528 by German Ashkenazi Jews making it one of the oldest synagogues in Venice. The temple is on the fourth and fifth floors of the five-story building that today is home to the Jewish Museum in Venice.
The church of Madonna dell'Orto was founded in the 14th century by the Humiliati order with a monastery. In 1377 a Gothic church was built with donations; the occasion was the transfer of a miraculous statue of the Madonna, which had been found in a nearby garden. The church itself was completed around 1400, but the facade was not finished until 1460-1464. After the expulsion of the Humiliati, the monastery passed to the Canons Regular of San Giorgio in Alga. After their dissolution in 1669, it was acquired by the Cistercian monks who remained there until the end of the Republic in 1797.
The Scuola Italiana in Venice was first built in 1575 and rebuilt in the 18th century. This Baroque stone building still serves as a synagogue.
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