Chiesa di San Giacomo di Rialto
Ancient parish church with a mocked fifteenth century clock and one of the last gothic porticoes in the city.
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This guide to the Chiesa di San Giacomo di Rialto in Venice opens with a public flogging that once ran through the city's streets, ending at a squat carved hunchback on the steps outside, where officials also once read new laws and death sentences aloud to the merchants below. It traces the sideways, single-handed clock above the entrance that Venetians joked was never right, and the church's disputed claim to being the oldest in the city, founded after a carpenter's plea to stop a fire. Look for the gothic portico, one of the last of its kind still standing in Venice.
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