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Santa Maria della Vittoria

Venice's memorial to the First World War

Santa Maria della Vittoria

One of the landmarks of the Lido, this green-domed memorial (1933-35), a first cousin of San Simeone Piccolo opposite the train station, was designed by Giuseppe Torres and built to honour the Italian war dead.

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vaporetto Lido S.M.E.

Art from the 1800s to the present

Lido

Text © Dana Facaros & Michael Pauls

Image by Tony Hisgett, Creative Commons License