Explore Religious Heritage Across Europe

San Paolo Apostolo is a modern church built between 2001 and 2009, on the location of an old church destroyed by the 1997 earthquake in the area. Designed by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, it owes its cubic form to a description of the New Jerusalem in the book of Revelation, suggesting that the holy city has an equal length and breadth.

The Basilica of San Paolo Maggiore is a basilica built on the ruins of the Dioscuri Temple, of which two Corinthian columns remain. Its construction lasted a century, from 1538 to 1630.

The San Paolo Sanctuary was built in the 20th century in imitation of the Norman style. Three artists worked on the facade, decorated with mosaics and three heavy sculpted bronze doors.

The church of San Patrizio in Villa Ludovisi was built in 1908 to a design by Aristide Leonori. It is in the neo-Renaissance style with Romanesque-Byzantine motifs on its façade. San Patrizio a Villa Ludovisi was the national church of Ireland until it became the national church of the United States of America in 2017. Since August 2017, it has been under the pastoral care of the Paulist Fathers, a religious order originally from and based in New York.

The Basilica of San Pietro di Castello, whose current building was built between 1596 and 1619, is an important place of worship in Venice and, until 1807, the Cathedral of the Patriarchate of Venice.

San Pietro di Sorres is a monastery church, an ancient cathedral, built in the 12th and 13th centuries in the late Romanesque style of Pisan. The diocese of Sorres was abolished in 1503. The building slowly fell into decay and was abandoned until 1947, when it was transformed into a monastery.

The church of San Pietro in Banchi in its current structure dates back to the end of the 16th century. It was built in the place where centuries before a religious building already stood, destroyed at the end of the 14th century during the struggles of faction between Guelphs and Ghibellines.

The Cathedral of San Severino was probably founded in the 13th century for the Augustinians. It preserves the 15th-century facade, a Gothic portal decorated with terracotta remains of frescoes attributed to Lorenzo d'Alessandro. The vast interior was reduced to its present state in 1776 and 1827 when the Augustinian church was transformed into a cathedral.

The church of San Zaccaria was built in the 15th century on the site of a monastery dating from the 9th century, which was destroyed by fire in 1105. At that time it was attached to a Benedictine monastery which the Doge visited every year at Easter, during a ceremony in which he was presented with his headdress, the "Corno Ducale". The monastery was one of the richest and most famous in Venice, rivalling that of San Lorenzo. Witness to the previous constructions, the beautiful 10th and 11th-century crypt is divided into three naves by small columns supporting cross vaults.

The sanctuary of the Madonna della Corona is a 19th-century neo-Gothic reconstruction of an old 16th-century church. The old church, built in 1530 on what was then a hermitage, became a sanctuary in 1625.