Keep your Carnevale, with its masked balls aimed at tourists – for Venetians it’s all about the Redentore festival Boat picnics at sunset during the Redentore festival The line of people across the ...

Pontoon bridge from the Zattere to the Chiesa del Redentore at the annual Redentore festival in memory of the plague epidemic of 1575-77. © Roger Howard (CC BY-SA 2. ...

The Church of Il Redentore, as it is familiarly known (its official name in English is the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer), sits south of Venice proper, across the water on the narrow island called ...

I saw a lot of great art on a recent trip to Venice. But the masterpiece I can't get out of my mind is not a painting, a mosaic, or a sculpture. It is a church. Palladio's Redentore glistens on the ...