San Geremia e Santa Lucia

Although rather plain on the outside, 18th-century San Geremia e Lucia with its hoary 11th-century campanile (one of the oldest still standing in Venice) improves within.

The original church dedicated to St Jeremiah was founded in the mid 11th century to house an arm of St Bartolomeo, and rebuilt on several occasions, lastly by Carlo Corbellini, a priest and architect from Brescia, after the church was damaged during the Austrian bombardment of 1749.

Unlike most churches, the focal point here is not the high altar but the Cappella Santa Lucia, where St Lucy's mummy was moved in 1863, after her church was demolished to make way for the train station. It was only one of Lucy’s many posthumous moves—from Syracuse, Sicily, to the Abruzzo, to Metz, to Constantinople then to Venice, as the recent paintings around her altar attest.