The Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute is the most famous of Venice's minor basilicas.
The church was built to fulfill a promise made during an outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 17th century.
The city council vowed to erect a church if Venice was delivered from the disease.
After the Plague subsided, the construction of this lovely church began, built in the Virgin Mary's honor, there is a great deal of symbolism worked into the architecture.

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