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Santissimo Redentore
Redentore, Sestiere Giudecca, 30133 Venice, Italy Phone: 39 041 275 0462About
Redentore was built as a votive church in thanksgiving for deliverance from a major outbreak of the plague that decimated Venice between 1575 and 1576, in which some 46,000 people (25-30% of the population) died. [1] The Senate of the Republic of Venice commissioned the architect Andrea Palladio to design the votive church. [2] Though the Senate wished the Church to be square plan,
