Built to celebrate the city’s deliverance from the Black Death, Palladio's Il Redentore was completed under Antonio da Ponte (of Rialto bridge fame) in 1592. Inside there are works by Tintoretto, Veronese and Vivarini, but the most striking is Paolo Piazza’s 1619 Gratitude of Venice for Liberation from the Plague .
Survival is never taken for granted in this tidal town, and to give thanks during the Festa del Redentore , Venetians have been making the pilgrimage across the canal on a shaky pontoon bridge from the Zattere since 1578.
