Santa Maria della Salute Is Consecrated on Venice's Bed of a Million Piles
Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
CONFIRMED78% CONFIDENCEWikipedia[3] and Venetian tourism histories date the consecration, by Patriarch Alvise Sagredo, to November 21, 1687 - still marked annually as the Festa della Salute.
Venice's Baroque votive basilica, its foundations built on more than a million driven wooden piles in the lagoon mud, is consecrated by Patriarch Alvise Sagredo. The city still marks the day every November 21st as the Festa della Salute.
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