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Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari is a large brick Gothic church of the Franciscans in the San Polo district, built over the 14th and 15th centuries and consecrated in 1492. Inside are Titian's Assumption of the Virgin on the high altar and his Pesaro Madonna, a carved monks' choir, and the monuments to several doges, Titian and Canova.

Santi Giovanni e Paolo, known in Venetian as San Zanipolo, is a Gothic brick basilica of the Dominicans in the Castello district, completed in 1430. From the 15th century the funerals of the doges were held here, and twenty-five doges are buried inside. Verrocchio's equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni stands in the square beside it.

St Mark's Basilica is the cathedral of Venice, on Piazza San Marco beside the Doge's Palace. Built from 1063 on a Byzantine cross plan crowned by five domes, it is lined inside with gold-ground mosaics; the Pala d'Oro altarpiece, the museum and the terrace with the bronze Horses of St Mark can also be visited.

Santa Maria della Salute is a domed Baroque basilica at the entrance to the Grand Canal, vowed by the Venetian Republic after the plague of 1630. Designed by Baldassare Longhena and begun in 1631, it has an octagonal plan under a large dome. The sacristy holds paintings by Titian and Tintoretto's Marriage at Cana.

San Giorgio Maggiore is a Benedictine church on the island of the same name, facing St Mark's Basin across the water from the Piazzetta. Designed by Andrea Palladio and built between 1566 and 1610, it has a white classical facade and a bright interior; the presbytery holds Tintoretto's Last Supper and The Gathering of the Manna.