Route Borgo Mazzini (home market) and Piazza Matteotti (known by all and called Piazza del Grano) takes you right the way St. Augustine (in ancient Via Ungaresca because leading to the north-eastern regions).
The road, lined by houses with porches to sixteenth painted facades, leading to the square in front of the Church of St. Augustine, from which you depart Via Manzoni and Fish Alley (bordering the former monastery of San Parisio).
The Church of St. Augustine is the only existing copies in the sacred city budovy Baroque hall in central elliptical, built around the middle of 1700 to designs of the Father Francis Vecellio (already active in projects of libraries and other Venetian churches) , Belonging to the College of Clerics Regular Somaschi. The building, completed and consecrated in 1767, is an extraordinary architectural outcome on the line of research open to extreme outcomes of Baroque culture, but also characterized by a local absorption of fluids.
Outside dominates the contrast between the nervous and rigid structure of the parties and the low elastic plasticity in assets. The overlap of a gable convex seventeenth-century home and a home serliana Palladian shows a willingness to combine experience between them away.
Inside, the bright and beautiful room to plant elliptical walls with lots of Corinthian pillars, all decorated with stucco that stand out within quadrature pistachio green and altars in marble, has an elegance pompous, almost profane.
The many paintings of these are predominantly piazzettesco Antonio Marinetti, known as "chiozzotte" (including the Glory of San Girolamo in the ceiling), the other Pozzoserrato (altar of Our Lady of Calegheri, belonging to the old church which was established this confraternity) others Fumiani Antonio. Remarkable also homogeneous set of wooden furniture, still well preserved, including the processional (teaches and torches) of the Confraternity of the Dead.
The building was renovated in 1930 with the outcome of profoundly altering the color by shares of contrasting color in painting interior. With a patient work of cleaning have reported such coloraturas to the original appearance, allowing a recovery of the extraordinary effect eighteenth.
The Church has regained its role as a protagonist in the urban scene. Even the less visible but important for the overall assessment of architecture, such as persorso hanging on the pulpit and bell tower have been restored to not lose the precious complex story building. The work was carried out with funds from the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Environmental into two chunks. The whole renovation will be completed thanks to the support of the St. Augustine that has almost completed the installation speech.