While I had put together an itinerary nothing was set in stone so today we wondered along the waterfront from San Marco square down towards Castello.
We looked in some shops, went into one of the churches there, San Pietro di Castello, not realising that the church was one of the original churches before the one in San Marco was built.
The present building dates from the 16th century, but a church has stood on the site since at least the 7th century. From 1451 to 1807, it was the city’s cathedral church, though hardly playing the usual dominant role of a cathedral, as it was overshadowed by the “state church” of San Marco, and inconveniently located.
We stopped at a cafe and had a salad, the first salad I think we had on our trip! Really hard to get vegetables on menus. Maybe they think tourists don’t want to be healthy?
As it was really cold we wondered back to our hotel, didn’t really do much else today.
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