Frari Church

A Basilica in San Polo district

 Frari church, complete name Basilica of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, was finished in 1338, but afterwards it went through over a century of works aiming at its enlargement. The Frari church is a Franciscan church: Frari means friars, from Franciscan friars who founded it. They had arrived in Venice in 1220 and were given this terrain in the district of San Polo by the doge. A convent is also part of the complex. 

The Assunta, painted by Titian, is recognized to be the most important masterpiece within Frari church. In the basilica there is also a marble pyramid which contains the heart of sculptor Antonio Canova (the rest of the body was buried in his native town); however, the monument had been originally designed by Canova himself as a mausoleum for Titian.