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Santa Maria della Grazia

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Santa Maria della Grazia or La Grazia is an artificial island of the Venetian lagoon, laying between the Giudecca and San Clemente. It rose during the middle age in the place where Venice rubble was hoarded up.

In 1264 there was a home for pilgrims to the Holy Land, later transformed in a convent. Into the church was exposed a supposed miraculous Madonna, after which the island was named. During the Napoleonic period the convent was suppressed and changed to a powder-magazine, which in 1849 exploded destroying also the church.

The island has been then the seat of an infectious diseases hospital till almost today.

References

  • Guida d’Italia del Touring Club Italiano – Venezia. 3° ed.
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