Martin M. Miles' photos with the keyword: San Michele in Isola

Venice (ital. Venezia) is one of the most important tourist destinations worldwide with about 30 million visitors each year. I have already uploaded dozens of shots from previous visits, so I´ll try to cut down the number of uploads this time. Tradition knows, that a church dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel, was built here in the 10th century. In 1212 the church was given to the Camaldolese, who built a monastery, and around 1300 it was granted it the title of an abbey. In the 15th century, the complex was rebuilt. The former abbey church "San Michele in Isola"

Venice (ital. Venezia) is one of the most important tourist destinations worldwide with about 30 million visitors each year. As each tourist takes at least 100 photos (minimum!) in Venice 3000000000 photos are taken here per year, what means more than 8 millions per day. Many of them are uploaded and can be found in the web. - The "Isola di San Michele" hosts a cemetery since 1807, when under French occupation it was decreed that burial on the main Venetian islands was unsanitary. "San Michele in Isola" existed already, when the cemetery was planned. It served a Camaldolese convent on the island since the 1480s.