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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">  </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Travel destinations to the <b>Basilica of St Mary of Health</b> commonly known simply as the <b>Salute</b>, is a Roman Catholic Church and minor basilica located in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the <a href="http://travel4atrip.blogspot.com/2010/10/giethoorn-water-village.html"><b>Italian city of Venice</b></a>. It stands on a narrow finger of land between the Grand Canal and the <span>Bacino di San Marco</span> making the church visible when entering the <b>Piazza San Marco</b> from the water. The <span>Salute</span> is part of the parish of the Gesuati and is the most recent of the so-called Plague-churches.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEILa8737eofJatXxpRGsgCneT-aOowfT0-VSBsMRBaqNDX_IE4sucVFwzZxns732UzTP30RUdKXP6nWaG-Th3BVDMFN3s7B0gT5U_2mcCJngC43hmevkmwpBsiLGj4_pxKJD7Z1banm9j/s1600/Travel-to-Santa-Maria-Della-Salute+.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEILa8737eofJatXxpRGsgCneT-aOowfT0-VSBsMRBaqNDX_IE4sucVFwzZxns732UzTP30RUdKXP6nWaG-Th3BVDMFN3s7B0gT5U_2mcCJngC43hmevkmwpBsiLGj4_pxKJD7Z1banm9j/s1600/Travel-to-Santa-Maria-Della-Salute+.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 1630 Venice experienced an unusually devastating outbreak of the <b>plague</b>. As a votive offering for the city's deliverance from the pestilence, the Republic of Venice vowed to build and dedicate a church to Our Lady of Health. The <span>Salute</span> is a vast, octagonal building with two domes and a pair of picturesque bell-towers at the back. Built on a platform made of 100,000 wooden piles, it is constructed of <b>Istria stone and <span>marmorino</span></b> (brick covered with marble dust). At the apex of the pediment stands a statue of the Virgin Mary who presides over the church which was erected in her honor.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHkDoC8gNW2d6ra03aoE3WrX0kYMpIeFgNd7pvrL4YBofis1i-4krM23ku4j7c_y_d8EP8YZF6ggqbCWtYwjxJQ855VG3AjhoIkL3oI34Qmet0qUTre0cXfs1jNwgdfyEcGRfHidw1mvdS/s1600/Travel-to-Santa-Maria-Della-Salute-Venice.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHkDoC8gNW2d6ra03aoE3WrX0kYMpIeFgNd7pvrL4YBofis1i-4krM23ku4j7c_y_d8EP8YZF6ggqbCWtYwjxJQ855VG3AjhoIkL3oI34Qmet0qUTre0cXfs1jNwgdfyEcGRfHidw1mvdS/s1600/Travel-to-Santa-Maria-Della-Salute-Venice.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">  </div><div style="text-align: justify;">While its external decoration and location capture the eye, the internal design itself is quite remarkable. The <b>octagonal church</b>, while ringed by a classic vocabulary, hearkens to Byzantine designs such as the <b>Basilica of San Vitale</b>. The interior has its architectural elements demarcated by the coloration of the material, and the central nave with its ring of saints atop a balustrade is a novel design the great dome represents her crown, the cavernous interior her womb, the eight sides the eight points on her <b>symbolic star</b>.</div></div>

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