The neighborhood is quiet, frequented more by locals than by tourists. The original church, founded in the fourteenth century, was dedicated to Saint Christopher, patron saint of travelers, who protected the many boatmen of Venezia.
The church was rebuilt in the fifteenth century, and dedicated to the Madonna, after the discovery in a nearby vegetable garden, of a statue of the Virgin and Child, said to have miraculous powers, now preserved in the Chapel of San Mauro.
The Madonna dell’Orto Church is located in the Canneregio district, the largest in the city, has a facade completely covered in red bricks, and its interior is large, bright and very neat. It is one of the most interesting examples of the Venetian island, in fact it testifies to the transition from Romanesque to Gothic style, and from Gothic to Renaissance.
Among his greatest treasures are the works of Tintoretto exposed in the presbytery, on the right "The Last Judgment" and on the left "The adoration of the golden calf while Moses receives the tables of the law", who spent thirty years of his life here , having home and atelier nearby.
At the end he was buried inside the church, in the chapel to the right of the presbytery, indicated by a plaque. Other very important works that we can find are the altarpiece of Cima da Conegliano, "Saint John the Baptist among the saints Peter, Marco, Girolamo and Paolo", the altarpiece of Palma il Giovane with "The Annunciation” and "The Archangel Raphael and Tobias "by Tiziano.
