Santa Maria della Grazia
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| Waters | Venice lagoon | |
| Geographical location | 45 ° 25 '9 " N , 12 ° 20' 22" E | |
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| length | 250 m | |
| width | 195 m | |
| surface | 3.814 8 ha | |
| Highest elevation | 3 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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Santa Maria della Grazia , also Santa Maria della Cavana or simply la Grazia is an island in the Venice lagoon . It has an area of 3.81 hectares and is 345 meters southeast of the Giudecca . 610 meters further south is the island of San Clemente and 1100 meters east is the island of San Servolo .
history
With permission from October 12, 1264, the island became the seat of an inn for pilgrims to the Holy Land . Marco Bollani, Abbot of San Giorgio Maggiore , commissioned a Lorenzo to set up a corresponding monastery there, which later maintained the congregation of the Eremiti di San Girolamo from Fiesole , founded in 1405 ; it existed until 1668.
Capuchin nuns later took over the monastery until the order was abolished by Napoleon in 1806. The island silted up because rubble was sunk there for a long time. In 1849 a powder magazine installed there exploded. Sick people with highly contagious diseases were quarantined there until the 20th century .
The island was sold in early 2010.
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Remarks
- ↑ Francesco Zanotto: Il palazzo ducale di Venezia , Vol. 4, Venice 1861, p. 133.
- ↑ L'Isola della Grazia passa a Stefanel , in: Corriere del Veneto, January 11, 2010 .