Venice - Santa Maria Assunta

(Local Name: I Gesuiti) The church, dating from the 13th century, was sumptuously rebuilt between 1714 and 1729 by Domenico Rossi in the Roman Baroque style for the Jesuits.

With its barrel-vaulted single nave, side-chapels, transept and choir, the church has an imposing and elaborate interior: walls clad with green and white marble, massive pillars and colonnades, gilding, and a High Altar with a baldachin and sculptured retable.

The most magnificent of the paintings is Titian's "Martyrdom of St Laurence" (between 1558 and 1560, last chapel on the left). Also noteworthy are Tintoretto's "Assumption of the Virgin" (in the left transept) and wall- and ceiling-paintings by Palma the Younger in the Sacristy.