San Stae
San Stae
The church of San Stae, which is Venetian dialect for Sant'Eustachio (Saint Eustace), was founded in the 11th century, but rebuilt in the 17th century (c. 1678) to a design by Giovanni Grassi. The spacious and very well-lit interior is made up a nave, flanked on each side by three chapels, and a chancel. The church's grand baroque façade, funded by a legacy from Doge Alvise Mocenigo II (1700-09), whose family palace, now a museum, lies close by, is the work of Domenico Rossi (1709). The Doge is honoured in the centre of the nave with a vast tomb stone, inscribed with nothing more than an image of the Ducal hat and the words: NOMEN ET CINERES UNA CUM VANITATE SEPULTA.
San Stae
