San Stae
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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 (r. 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 dogal hat and the words: NOMEN ET CINERES UNA CUM VANITATE SEPULTA. |
San Stae
Interior of San Stae
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